Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Frankel, Nicholas
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Frankel, Nicholas

Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years

Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile...
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Author: Nicholas Frankel
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Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Frankel, Nicholas

Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years

$99.87
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Frankel, Nicholas

Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years

$99.87
Author: Nicholas Frankel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 passion, enjoying new liberties while trying to resurrect his literary career.

After two bitter years of solitary confinement, Frankel shows, Wilde emerged from prison in 1897 determined to rebuild his life along lines that were continuous with the path he had followed before his conviction, unapologetic and even defiant about the crime for which he had been convicted. England had already done its worst. In Europe's more tolerant atmosphere, he could begin to live openly and without hypocrisy.

Frankel overturns previous misunderstandings of Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the great love of his life, with whom he hoped to live permanently in Naples, following their secret and ill-fated elopement there. He describes how and why the two men were forced apart, as well as Wilde's subsequent relations with a series of young men. Oscar Wilde pays close attention to Wilde's final two important works, De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol, while detailing his nearly three-year residence in Paris. There, despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde attempted to rebuild himself as a man--and a man of letters.



Author: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 10/16/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780674737945


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2017

About the Author
Frankel, Nicholas: - Nicholas Frankel is Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Among his many books about Oscar Wilde are Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years, The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, and The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated Uncensored Edition (all from Harvard).
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