The Journalism of Oscar Wilde

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Throughout the 1880s Oscar Wilde devoted a great part of his creative energies to working as a professional journalist and he was prepared to write on a remarkable range of topics. Uniquely witty, intellectually acute, and socially aware Wilde's journalism not only displays the extensive reading and stylistic experimentation that prepared the way for his major works of the 1890s, it provides an essential record of the vibrant and rapidly changing journalistic culture in which he played a major part.

Content:

A Handbook To Marriage

A Ride Through Morocco

Aristotle At Afternoon Tea

Balzac In English

Dinners And Dishes

Hamlet At The Lyceum

London Models

Mr Morris On Tapestry

Mr Whistler’s Ten O’clock

Mrs Langtry As Hester Grazebrook

Olivia At The Lyceum

The American Invasion

Two Biographies Of Keats

Two Letters To The Daily Chronicle

Woman’s Dress

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is a central figure in aesthetic writing. Wilde was a poet, fiction writer, essayist and editor. Oscar Wilde is often seen as a homosexual icon although as many men of his day he was also a husband and father. Wilde’s life ended at odds with Victorian morals that surrounded him. He died in exile.