How Would You Explain Oscar Wilde’s Continued Appeal? | Michèle Mendelssohn
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2018 · Education
Oscar Wilde continues to be one of the leading figures of English literature as well as a larger than life gay icon. Michèle Mendelssohn explains the continued fascination Wilde holds for us today and how the many different aspects of his personality make him particularly interesting to a variety of readers. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-oscar-wilde-9780198802365 Michèle Mendelssohn is a literary critic and cultural historian. She is Associate Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. She earned her doctorate from Cambridge University and was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. Her previous books include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture and two co-edited collections of literary criticism, Alan Hollinghurst and Late Victorian Into Modern (shortlisted for the 2017 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize). She has published in The New York Times, The Guardian, African American Review, Journal of American Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature, and Victorian Literature and Culture. © Oxford University Press
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