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After Oscar : the legacy of a scandal / Merlin Holland.

By:

Holland, Merlin [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Europa Editions, [2025]Description: 686 pages, 56 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color), portraits, photographs ; 26 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9798889661764

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

828.09 23

Contents:

Introduction -- PART ONE (1897-1900) -- 1. Oscar's release -- 2. After the fall -- 3. Constance's & Oscar's deaths -- PART TWO (1900-1918) -- 1. The orphaned Wildes -- 2. Ross manages the estate -- 3. No longer schoolboys -- 4. Return from purgatory -- 5. Robbie & Bosie declare war -- 6. Vyvyan tries to find a purpose in life -- 7. The brothers exchanged letters -- 8. A tale of two testicles -- 9. The ransome libel trial -- 10. Kicking Oscar's corpse -- 11. Vyvyan & the War -- PART THREE (1918-1945) -- 1. Vyvyan takes control -- 2. Understanding Vyvyan in the 1920s -- 3. The 1920s forgeries -- 4. Frank Harris's 'Life Of Wilde' -- 5. Inventions & false memoirs -- 6. Oscar in the 1930s -- PART FOUR (1945-1967) -- 1. Australia -- 2. Writing 'Son of Oscar Wilde' -- 3. Unpicking 'Son of Oscar Wilde' -- 4. The Tite Street unveiling -- 5. The duplicitous Mr. Hyde -- 6. Publishing Oscar's letters -- 7. Eton -- 8. The two Oscar Wilde films -- 9. Vyvyan's last years -- PART FIVE (1968-2024) -- 1. (After) Oxford -- 2. The Ellmann saga -- 3. Classifying the tomb -- 4. Constance's tomb -- 5. Poet's Corner -- 6. The Speranza Centenary -- 7. 'Wilde', the film -- 8. Looking at the stars -- 9. Moscow pride (& prejudice) -- 10. Cashing in on Oscar -- Epilogue (2025)

Summary: "Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris, his reputation in tatters, exhausted by scandal and prison life. While the details of his life in the limelight are well known, often ignored are the reverberations of the Wilde scandal over the decades following his trial and death. With pathos, humor, and his grandfather’s signature wit, Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde’s posthumous reputation. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, 'After Oscar' documents decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family and exposes a century of bigotry and hypocrisy within the cultural establishment. Here is a book that will amuse, infuriate, fascinate, and shock. Readers beware -- you’re in for a Wilde ride"-- Publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction	New Books	828.809 HOL	Available		36748002650341

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [609]-658) and index.

"Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris, his reputation in tatters, exhausted by scandal and prison life. While the details of his life in the limelight are well known, often ignored are the reverberations of the Wilde scandal over the decades following his trial and death. With pathos, humor, and his grandfather’s signature wit, Merlin Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, tracing the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde’s posthumous reputation. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, 'After Oscar' documents decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family and exposes a century of bigotry and hypocrisy within the cultural establishment. Here is a book that will amuse, infuriate, fascinate, and shock. Readers beware -- you’re in for a Wilde ride"-- Publisher.