In the first full-length psychoanalytic biography of Oscar Wilde, Melissa Knox explores the link between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity and his self-destructive heroism.
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Melissa Knox has written extensively about Oscar Wilde and other nineteenth century writers, among them Henry Rider Haggard and Thomas De Quincey. She teaches at the University of Duisberg-Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and is available to give talks on Oscar Wilde.
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Original and Provocative,
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This review is from: Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (Paperback)
I'm a graduate student studying Wilde, and really appreciated this thoughtful and challenging book. So much of the scholarship on the most interesting issues--gender, sexuality, identity--is original only in its jargonistic neologisms. This book is different: straightforward, solidly researched, beautifully written, and sympathetic to Wilde.
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Best book available on Wilde,
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This review is from: Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (Paperback)
This is simply the best book on Oscar Wilde that I've ever read. A must read for Wilde scholars and an enjoyable read for Wilde enthusiasts.
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Excellent, readable, and scholarly,
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This review is from: Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (Hardcover)
This psychoanalytic biography of Wilde explores more aspects of his life than many of the better known biographies, even Ellmann's. Well-researched, well-written, fun to read. Wilde's isolation, complicated relationship to his young sister who died and his parents, and terror of syphilis, are all explored in this interesting and enjoyable book
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