Description: The Stranger Wilde - Interpreting Oscar by Gary Schmidgall copyright 19941st edition. This book with dustjacket is in very good condition - Dustjacket in very good condition with no wear in protective cover and book has no torn or missing pages nor writing in the bookA lively, original, often moving portrait of Oscar Wilde, this biographical essay claims him as "one of the . . . great liberators Ireland has produced," a moral philosopher akin to Nietzsche as an unmasker of hypocrisy and prudery. Peering behind Wilde's public personas as scourge of Victorian verities, aesthete, arbiter of style and colorful talker, Schmidgall ( Literature As Opera ) probes his "essentially childish spirit," his strain of misanthropy, his "ruinous infatuation" with young men and the Falstaffian exuberance that lent him charisma. Delightfully illustrated with period drawings and photographs, this unconventional life is organized thematically, with chapters on Wilde's unhappy marriage; his spiritual kinship with Lady Jane ("Speranza") Wilde, his "flamboyant, eagle-beaked" mother; his homosexuality; his notorious conviction for sodomy; and so forth. Schmidgall builds a tantalizing if strained case that Wilde's autobiographical literary works embody "a concerted and devastating attack on the Closet." Also listed Jean Harlow SIGNED, Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Billie Burke SIGNED, Liberace SIGNED, Steve Reeves, Montgomery Clift SIGNED, Marilyn Monroe 1920s Hollywood Magazines, Mae West SIGNED & other Hollywood items ...!!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered
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Book Title: The Stranger Wilde
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Biography
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Gary Schmidgall
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History
Topic: 18th Century, LGBT, Writers, Historic Figures, History, Literature, Theater
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
