Declaring his genius : Oscar Wilde in North America /

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"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 W...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morris, Roy, Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Travel > United States.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Travel > Canada.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Travel
Canada
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Too too utterly utter
  • More wonderful than Dickens
  • Those who dawnce don't dine
  • What would Thoreau have said to my hatbox?
  • No well-behaved river ought to act this way
  • A very italy, without its art
  • Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best
  • You should have seen it before the war
  • The Oscar of the first period is dead.

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