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Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/exhibits/wilde/00main.htm

Description:
Material about British author Oscar Wilde ("novelist, poet, playwright, aesthete, reputed homosexual, enigma"), who was convicted in 1895 of practicing "indecent acts." The exhibit of printed and manuscript works "trace[s] the powerful impact of Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic, political, spiritual, and moral circles of late-Victorian England." Includes discussions of Wilde's epigrammatic theater, Wilde in America, and prison and personal letters. From New York University (NYU) Library.

LII Topics: Authors by Region, English

Publisher:
New York University (NYU) Library

LII Database Information:
Record 24659 created by Maria Brandt on 10/08/2007
Last modification on 10/09/2007
Published: 10/17/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24659

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