Oscar Wilde's Paris

Legends and Legacies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Oscar Wilde’s Paris: Legends and Legacies chronicles Wilde’s lifelong relationship with the French capital, the city he called “the most wonderful city in the world,” and the site of his rise to literary fame, self-imposed exile, and eventual death.Focused on the 1880s to the 1940s, editors Colette Colligan and Gregory Mackie shed light on this vibrant, transnational chapter of Wilde’s life and legacy. Contributors document how his relationship with the city developed in literature, journalism, and the visual arts, as well as in the city’s famous cafés, bars, restaurants, hotels, and cemeteries.This collection highlights three touchstones in the relationship between Wilde and Paris: his Parisian self-fashioning, the impact of the city’s cultural scene on his career, and his legacy’s absorption into the myth of Paris as a place of artistic and sexual freedom.Whether Wilde is viewed as ambitious aesthete, Francophile flâneur, or disreputable expatriate, Oscar Wilde’s Paris tells the story of how one man’s life became intertwined with the cultural imagination of a city, and how that city, in turn, claimed him as its own.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-01-13
Mått:157 x 232 x 23 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487541415

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Colette Colligan is a professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Angers in France.Gregory Mackie is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Norman Colbeck curator of rare books at the University of British Columbia.

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Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Romance of Wilde and the City of LightColette Colligan and Gregory MackiePart 1: Wilde CityChapter One: Oscar Wilde and the “Artistic Capital of the World”Nicholas FrankelChapter Two: “I am not really myself except in the midst of elegant crowds”: The Role of Paris in Oscar Wilde’s Identity FormationPaisley MannPart 2: Journalistic AdvocacyChapter Three: How Parisian Journalists Changed Their Minds about the Wilde ScandalColette ColliganChapter Four: Oscar Wilde and Henry-D. Davray: Reviewing, Translating, and Publishing Wilde for the Mercure de FrancePetra DierkesPart 3: Archive and AnecdoteChapter Five: Disputed Memories: Oscar Wilde’s Deathbed at the Hôtel d’AlsaceJoseph BristowChapter Six: Oscar Wilde’s French FragmentsRebecca N. MitchellPart 4: Literary Influence and AppropriationChapter Seven: Oscar Wilde and Pierre Louÿs: Gestures of Literary Friendship from Inspiration to TranslationClément Dessy and Stefano EvangelistaChapter Eight: Oscar Wilde, Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, and Cross-Channel Decadence in the Twentieth CenturyKristin MahoneyPart 5: Legend and LegacyChapter Nine: Oscar Wilde’s Tomb: Silence and the Aesthetics of Queer MemorialEllen CrowellChapter Ten: Un Faux Parisien: Sylvestre Dorian and Oscar Wilde’s Letters to Sarah BernhardtGregory MackieBibliographyIndex