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: "This is an impressive and important book that all scholars of Wilde, the fin-de-siécle, and modernism will find useful."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900