[Free pdf] Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age
·•●- Mary Warner Blanchard ·•●-
| #2243548 in Books | 1998-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .85 x7.18 x10.21l,2.09 | File Name: 0300074603 | 320 pages
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| All around this is a tour de force!|By A Customer|Reading this book has been an astonishing experience . . . Never have I been so informed by the substantiality of the aesthetic ideas of Oscar Wilde in an American context I thought I knew. Who, after all, has ever connected Wilde with William Dean Howells and Henry Adams? Nor was I aware of the impact of aestheticism on|From Publishers Weekly|The Wilde revival?or is it a craze??continues with Blanchard's study of the Apostle of Aestheticism and his influence on art and culture in America's Gilded Age, that blink in time between the "bronzed heroism" of the Civil War and Teddy
In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism", his wit and brilliance and deliberate outrageousness creating controversy among audiences across the continent. The America visited by Wilde was a nation still badly shaken by the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In this atmosphere Wilde's message of regeneration through art and beauty seemed to many Americans to open new horizons of social possibility. In this book, a cultural history of th...
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