Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years

by Nicholas Frankel

Book Overview

Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years challenges the prevailing, traditional view of Wilde as a broken, tragic figure, a martyr to Victorian sexual morality, and shows instead that he pursued his post-prison life with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674737946
• ISBN13: 9780674737945
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.2"