Author: George Woodward WarderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Eden Dell
Author: George Woodward WarderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The New Cosmogony
Author: George Woodward WarderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cosmogony
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Utopian Dreams and Lotus Leaves
Author: George Woodward WarderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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McBride's Magazine
Author: After which All Things
Author: George Woodward WarderPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Atlantic Monthly
Author: Declaring His Genius
Author: Roy Morris Jr.Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had “nothing to declare but my genius.” But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde’s eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: “We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?” Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post–Civil War Americans—still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history—understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A Little Book of Missouri Verse
Author: James Samuel SnoddyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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