The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Informationen zum Autor Neil McKenna is a freelance journalist, particularly for the Guardian and the Independent and a freelance producer and researcher for Channel 4. He is a notable campaigner for gay rights - the Clause 24 debate being largely a result of his work. Klappentext Deals with Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, in this book, the author argues that Oscar's Wilde's life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. Zusammenfassung ‘ I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work ’. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life – a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar’s astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London’s sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar’s Wilde’s life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality. The book draws of a vast range of sources, many of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material like the statements made to the police by the male prostitutes and blackmailers ranged against Oscar Wilde at his trial which have been lost for over a century. Dazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde’s emotional and sexual life, painting an astonishingly frank and vivid portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.

Product details

• Authors: Neil McKenna, McKenna Neil
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2004
• EAN: 9780099415459
• ISBN: 978-0-09-941545-9
• No. of pages: 752
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 39 mm
• Series: Arrow Paperbacks; Arrow Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, Social & cultural history, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Gay Studies (Gay Men), LGBTQ+ Studies / topics