001479176 000__ 05102nam\a22009975i\4500 001479176 001__ 1479176 001479176 003__ DE-B1597 001479176 005__ 20231102072916.0 001479176 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479176 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479176 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479176 020__ $$a9780674067875 001479176 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674067875$$2doi 001479176 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178038 001479176 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979967839 001479176 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479176 0410_ $$aeng 001479176 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479176 050_4 $$aPR5823$$b.M65 2013eb 001479176 072_7 $$aBIO007000$$2bisacsh 001479176 1001_ $$aMorris, Jr., Roy,$$eauthor. 001479176 24510 $$aDeclaring His Genius :$$bOscar Wilde in North America /$$cRoy Morris, Jr. 001479176 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479176 264_4 $$c©2013 001479176 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b27 halftones 001479176 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479176 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479176 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479176 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479176 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tIntroduction --$$t1 Too Too Utterly Utter --$$t2 More Wonderful Than Dickens --$$t3 Those Who Dawnce Don't Dine --$$t4 What Would Thoreau Have Said to My Hat-Box! --$$t5 No Well-Behaved River Ought to Act This Way --$$t6 A Very Italy, Without Its Art --$$t7 Don't Shoot the Pianist; He's Doing His Best --$$t8 You Should Have Seen It Before the War --$$t9 The Oscar of the First Period Is Dead --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479176 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479176 520__ $$aArriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: "We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?" Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil War Americans-still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history-understood themselves. In an era that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same. 001479176 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479176 546__ $$aIn English. 001479176 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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