Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "If Oscar Wilde was, by all accounts, the most desirable guest of his time--magnetic, provocative, and outrageously funny--then Joseph Bristow is, on the evidence of this volume (Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture), the most accomplished host of our own age."--The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies