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Oscar Wilde in America : the interviews / edited by Matthew Hofer and Gary Scharnhorst.

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"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, Hofer, Matthew, Scharnhorst, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Interviews.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Travel > United States.
Authors, Irish > 19th century > Interviews.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Authors, Irish.
Travel.
United States.
Electronic book.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • "Oscar Wilde's arrival," New York World
  • "Oscar Wilde," New York Evening Post
  • "Our New York letter," Philadelphia Inquirer
  • "The theories of a poet," New York Tribune
  • "The science of the beautiful," New York World
  • "A talk with Wilde," Philadelphia Press
  • "The aesthetic bard," Philadelphia Inquirer
  • "What Oscar has to say," Baltimore American
  • "Wilde and Forbes," New York Herald
  • "An interview with the poet," Albany Argus
  • "Oscar Wild," Boston Herald
  • "The aesthetic apostle," Boston Globe
  • Lilian Whiting, "They will show him," Chicago Inter-Ocean
  • "A man of culture rare,"
  • Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
  • "Wilde sees the falls," Buffalo Express
  • "The apostle of art," Chicago Inter-Ocean
  • "Truly aesthetic," Chicago Inter-Ocean
  • "Wilde," Cleveland Leader
  • "With Mr. Oscar Wild," Cincinnati Gazette
  • "Oscar Wilde," Cincinnati Enquirer
  • "Utterly utter," St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • "Speranza's gifted son," St. Louis Globe-Democrat
  • "Oscar as he is, " St. Louis Republican
  • "Oscar Wilde," Chicago Tribune
  • "Philosophical Oscar," Chicago Times
  • "David and Oscar," Chicago Tribune
  • "Oscar Wilde in Omaha," Omaha Weekly Herald
  • "Oscar Wilde: an interview with the apostle of aestheticism," San Francisco Examiner
  • "Oscar Wilde's views," San Francisco Morning Call
  • "Lo! the aesthete," San Francisco Chronicle
  • "Oscar arrives," Sacramento Record-Union
  • Mary Watson, "Oscar Wilde at home," San Francisco Examiner
  • "Oscar Wilde," Salt Lake Herald
  • "Oscar Wilde," Denver Rocky Mountain News
  • "Art and aesthetics," Denver Tribune
  • "What Mr. Wilde says about himself," Manchester Examiner and Times
  • "Aesthetic: an interesting interview with Oscar Wilde," Dayton Daily Democrat
  • "Oscar Wilde's return," New York World
  • "Oscar Wilde in Montreal," Montreal Witness
  • "Oscar Wilde: the arch-aesthete on aestheticism," Montreal Star
  • "Oscar Wilde," Toronto Globe
  • "The aesthete at the art exhibition," Toronto Globe
  • "Oscar Wilde talks of Texas,"
  • New Orleans Picayune
  • "Oscar Wilde: arrival of the great aesthete," Atlanta Constitution
  • "Oscar dear, Oscar dear!" Charleston News and Courier
  • "Loveliness and politeness," New York Sun
  • "The apostle of beauty in Nova Scotia," Halifax Morning Herald
  • "Oscar Wilde thoroughly exhausted," New York Tribune
  • Appendix. Wilde's lecture "Impressions of America."

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