{"product_id":"beautiful-untrue-things-gregory-mackie-9781487502904","title":"Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorrowing 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. \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Untrue Things \u003c\/i\u003erecovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore 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 \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory MacKie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487502907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487502904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019","brand":"Gregory MacKie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838307717375,"sku":"9781487502904","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f9a214ad-650e-4806-be9b-86c68bf7f87e.jpg?v=1746589423","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beautiful-untrue-things-gregory-mackie-9781487502904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}