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Características del artículo
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- Book Title
- Beautiful Untrue Things, Forging Oscar Wilde ...
- Genre
- World literature & Classics
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
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- 9781487502904
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1487502907
ISBN-13
9781487502904
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7067519254
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Beautiful Untrue Things : Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
European / General, Gender Studies, General, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-299683
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Gregory Mackie treats the reader to stories attesting to the profound interest that Wilde's persona and literary output generated even decades after his death. And aside from the cult of authorial personality, the study also documents those elements of Wilde's style - the epigrammatic wit, the droll dependence on paradox - that made it ideal for pastiche or forgery." --Rebecca N. Mitchell, Department of English, University of Birmingham "Gregory Mackie has translated an almost dizzying amount of archival research into a study that is both entertaining and illuminating. Squarely trained on Oscar Wilde, Beautiful Untrue Things surprises by looking for things decidedly not-Wilde. Mackie has, in other words, crafted a book rich in original insights by using a new lens: Wilde forgeries." --Ellen Crowell, Department of English, Saint Louis University, "The study illuminates in meticulous detail the paradoxical relationship between forgery and authenticity in the Wildean sense: a good fake makes a good original. In four chapters Mackie maps out the structures of the meta-canon of Wilde's literary afterlife." --Katharina Herold, The Wildean " Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde's many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers." --Brittany Reid, The Ormsby Review "Mackie's study is certainly both extensively researched and beautifully written; his own fandom may be sensed in his allusive prose and clever headings. This book represents a substantial contribution to the study of Wilde's afterlife and itself demonstrates the attraction of adding to Wilde's story."--Aaron Eames, Romance, Revolution & Reform " Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde's many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers. By focusing on the forgers rather than the forged subject, Mackie details the processes of myth-making and not their hagiographic results." --Brittany Reid, The Ormsby Review, "The study illuminates in meticulous detail the paradoxical relationship between forgery and authenticity in the Wildean sense: a good fake makes a good original. In four chapters Mackie maps out the structures of the meta-canon of Wilde's literary afterlife." --Katharina Herold, The Wildean " Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde's many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers." --Brittany Reid, The Ormsby Review "Mackie's study is certainly both extensively researched and beautifully written; his own fandom may be sensed in his allusive prose and clever headings. This book represents a substantial contribution to the study of Wilde's afterlife and itself demonstrates the attraction of adding to Wilde's story."--Aaron Eames, Romance, Revolution & Reform " Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde's many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers. By focusing on the forgers rather than the forged subject, Mackie details the processes of myth-making and not their hagiographic results." --Brittany Reid, The Ormsby Review "Gregory Mackie treats the reader to stories attesting to the profound interest that Wilde's persona and literary output generated even decades after his death. And aside from the cult of authorial personality, the study also documents those elements of Wilde's style - the epigrammatic wit, the droll dependence on paradox - that made it ideal for pastiche or forgery." --Rebecca N. Mitchell, Department of English, University of Birmingham "Gregory Mackie has translated an almost dizzying amount of archival research into a study that is both entertaining and illuminating. Squarely trained on Oscar Wilde, Beautiful Untrue Things surprises by looking for things decidedly not-Wilde. Mackie has, in other words, crafted a book rich in original insights by using a new lens: Wilde forgeries." --Ellen Crowell, Department of English, Saint Louis University
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
828/.809
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Truth of Fakes 1. The Importance of Being Authentic 2. The Picture of Dorian Hope 3. Pen, Pencil, and Planchette 4. The Devoted Fraud Conclusion: The Teacher of Fandom Notes Bibliography
Synopsis
Beautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction., Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay "The Decay of Lying," this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde's early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde's continued cultural impact at a moment when he had fallen out of favour with the literary establishment. It probes the activities of a series of eccentric and often outrageous figures who inhabited Oscar Wilde's much-mythologized authorial persona - in forging him, they effectively wrote as Wilde - in order to argue that literary forgery can be reimagined as a form of performance. But to forge Wilde and generate "beautiful untrue things" in his name is not only an exercise in role-playing - it is also crucially a form of imaginative world-making, resembling what we describe today as fan fiction.
LC Classification Number
PR5827.I52M33 2019
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