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The secret life of oscar wilde by neil mckenna 535pp, century. Mckennas earlier work, the secret life of oscar wilde, has a very different tone. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the secret life of oscar wilde. With an introduction and notes by anne varty, royal holloway, university of london oscar wilde took london by storm with his first comedy, lady windermeres fan. Wildes goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its values. The trials of oscar wilde 1895 download ebook pdf, epub. The secret life of oscar wilde by neil mckenna nook book. Mckenna, neil, the secret life of oscar wilde londen, century publishing. Neil mckenna author of the secret life of oscar wilde. He has also worked extensively in the gay press in britain and the united states.
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The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and in his next three plays, a woman of no importance, an ideal husband, and his undisputed. Wilde s goal is to subvert the norm by reversing its values. Neil mckennas biography the secret life of oscar wilde 2003 theorizes that wilde was aware of his homosexuality much earlier, from the moment of his first kiss with another boy at the age of 16. The secret life of oscar wilde by neil mckenna arrow. In the eyes of the victorians, there was only one thing worse than a sodomite, and that was a proselytising sodomite. In 2003, centuryrandom house published the secret life of oscar wilde by neil mckenna centuryrandom house, billed as the first complete account of wilde s sexual and emotional life. As a result, by 1876 psychological had become a term that oscar wilde and his peers used to describe anything pertaining to gay sex. The secret life of oscar wilde by neil mckenna goodreads. Oscar wilde wanted his life to be a great dramatic work, the tale of the genius brought down by a fatal weakness, of a man who. According to neil mckenna, author of the secret life of oscar wilde, the word bitch is used by other victorian writers to describe boys whod been sodomised at harrow. In many ways, the written works of oscar wilde 18541900 are overshadowed by the drama of his life, and the incandescence of his personality, but they should not be undervalued. Oscar wilde wanted his life to be a great dramatic work, the tale of the genius brought down.
Jad adams learns more than he needs to know about the playwrights sex life in neil mckennas the secret life of oscar wilde. Neil mckenna is an awardwinning british writer and journalist who has written for the british newspapers, the independent, the independent on sunday, the observer, the guardian, the new statesman, as well as for channel 4 television. View of neil mckenna, the secret life of oscar wilde london. The secret life of oscar wilde download ebook pdf, epub. Mckenna charts wilde s astonishing odyssey through londons sexual underworld, and provides explosive new evidence of the political machinations behind wilde s trials for sodomy.
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