{"product_id":"oscar-wilde-nicholas-frankel-9780674737945","title":"Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of \"gross indecency\" between men. \u003ci\u003eOscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the prevailing, traditional view of Wilde as a broken, tragic figure, a martyr to Victorian sexual morality, and shows instead that he pursued his post-prison life with passion, enjoying new liberties while trying to resurrect his literary career. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter two bitter years of solitary confinement, Frankel shows, Wilde emerged from prison in 1897 determined to rebuild his life along lines that were continuous with the path he had followed before his conviction, unapologetic and even defiant about the crime for which he had been convicted. England had already done its worst. In Europe's more tolerant atmosphere, he could begin to live openly and without hypocrisy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrankel overturns previous misunderstandings of Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the great love of his life, with whom he hoped to live permanently in Naples, following their secret and ill-fated elopement there. He describes how and why the two men were forced apart, as well as Wilde's subsequent relations with a series of young men. \u003ci\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e pays close attention to Wilde's final two important works, \u003ci\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Reading Gaol\u003c\/i\u003e, while detailing his nearly three-year residence in Paris. There, despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde attempted to rebuild himself as a man--and a man of letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Frankel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674737946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674737945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2017","brand":"Nicholas Frankel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981086523647,"sku":"9780674737945","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8dd0232f-3f08-471f-b4ad-fe9ab4848402.jpg?v=1683253583","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oscar-wilde-nicholas-frankel-9780674737945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}