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Oscar Wilde was a major influence on the culture of his time, and remains relevant today, as a model of wit and style, a sexual icon, and a moral example. In a sequence of detailed and imaginative chapters on Wilde and his times, John Stokes shows how in the 1880s and 1890s Wilde played a vital part in the development of modern culture, inspiring others to carry his ideas on into the twentieth century.
Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition, and of his relationships with such legendary figures of the fin de siecle as Aubrey Beardsley, Alfred Jarry, and Arthur Symons. And always, as part of the process of historical inquiry, Stokes considers those who came after: humanitarian disciples who kept Wilde's memory sacred, performers in his plays, actors who impersonated the man himself.
Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations explains why Wilde, a 'material ghost', haunts us still.
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Authors, Irish, Biography, Criticism and interpretation, Gay men, History, Homosexuality and literature, Influence, Irish authors, Romanticism, Wilde, oscar, 1854-1900, Romanticism, great britain, 18.05 English literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)People
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Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations
December 14, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Oscar Wilde: myths, miracles, and imitations
1996, Cambridge University Press
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