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• Title: Oscar Wilde: A Celebrity in the Making (Essay)
• Author : Traffic (Parkville)
• Release Date : January 01, 2007
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 344 KB

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Oscar Wilde has received much biographical attention, both popular and scholarly, since his death in 1900. With such interest in the figure of Wilde, one's initial feeling might be that all sources available concerning Wilde had surely been located and 'exhausted'. During the past two years, however, new source material has entered the public domain from a private collection. This source has provided my thesis with a new insight into Oscar Wilde and his lecture tour of America in 1882. The nineteenth-century scrapbook bequeathed to the British Library in 2005 casts the most significant new light on the early career of Oscar Wilde. The volume of advertising materials, newspaper and magazine clippings compiled by Wilde's American tour manager, Colonel W F Morse, contains material which presents a career in the making and a very conscious construction of a modern celebrity. Having only recently emerged from conservation in the British Library, this archive has previously been used by only select scholars at the invitation of the owner. The housing of the manuscript at the British Library proved serendipitous for my doctoral research. **********

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