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Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel (Hardcover, 2017)

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Frankel's Wilde is human, real, and didactic. Yet this is no dry academic exercise. Frankel weaves the information into a story about a man who remains a hero. Copious notes are useful for readers who want more, but the text is thoroughly accessible… In reclaiming the final years, Frankel has recovered the man and redefined his legacy.

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Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of ?gross indecency? between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years challenges the prevailing, traditional view of Wilde as a broken, tragic figure, a martyr to Victorian sexual morality, and shows instead that he pursued his post-prison life with passion, enjoying new liberties while trying to resurrect his literary career. After two bitter years of solitary confinement, Frankel shows, Wilde emerged from prison in 1897 determined to rebuild his life along lines that were continuous with the path he had followed before his conviction, unapologetic and even defiant about the crime for which he had been convicted. England had already done its worst. In Europe's more tolerant atmosphere, he could begin to live openly and without hypocrisy. Frankel overturns previous misunderstandings of Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the great love of his life, with whom he hoped to live permanently in Naples, following their secret and ill-fated elopement there. He describes how and why the two men were forced apart, as well as Wilde's subsequent relations with a series of young men. Oscar Wilde pays close attention to Wilde's final two important works, De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, while detailing his nearly three-year residence in Paris. There, despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde attempted to rebuild himself as a man?and a man of letters.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674737945
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6046382807

Product Key Features

Book Title
Oscar Wilde: the Unrepentant Years
Author
Nicholas Frankel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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210mm
Item Width
140mm

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Nicholas Frankel
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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