Declaring His Genius : : Oscar Wilde in North America / / Roy Morris, Jr.
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&#...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Too Too Utterly Utter
- 2 More Wonderful Than Dickens
- 3 Those Who Dawnce Don't Dine
- 4 What Would Thoreau Have Said to My Hat-Box!
- 5 No Well-Behaved River Ought to Act This Way
- 6 A Very Italy, Without Its Art
- 7 Don't Shoot the Pianist; He's Doing His Best
- 8 You Should Have Seen It Before the War
- 9 The Oscar of the First Period Is Dead
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index