"Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend "explores
the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an
immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881
American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his
dramas. Always renowned--if not notorious--for his fashionable
persona, Wilde courted celebrity at an early age. Later, he came to
prominence as one of the most talented essayists and fiction
writers of his time. In the years leading up to his two-year
imprisonment, Wilde stood among the foremost dramatists in London.
But after he was sent down for committing acts of "gross indecency"
it seemed likely that social embarrassment would inflict
irreparable damage to his legacy. As this volume shows, Wilde died
in comparative obscurity. Little could he have realized that in
five years his name would come back into popular circulation thanks
to the success of Richard Strauss's opera "Salome" and Robert
Ross's edition of "De Profundi." With each succeeding decade, the
twentieth century continued to honor Wilde's name by keeping his
plays in repertory, producing dramas about his life, adapting his
works for film, and devising countless biographical and critical
studies of his writings. This volume reveals why, more than a
hundred years after his demise, Wilde's value in the academic
world, the auction house, and the entertainment industry stands
higher than that of any modern writer.
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