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Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland
Eibhear Walshe
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Oscar Wilde was the most famous gay Irishman and Oscar's Shadow deals with Wilde and his homosexuality within the context of Ireland and of Irish cultural perceptions of his sexuality. The book investigates the questions: What was 'Oscar's shadow', his influence on twentieth and twenty-first century Irish culture and literature? What has Oscar Wilde meant to Ireland from his disgrace in May 1895 up to the present? Walshe presents Oscar's shadow in Ireland from 1895 to the present, using contemporary Irish newspaper reports of the Wilde trials of 1895, previously unpublished archival material, and a significant body of Irish ... Read more
Oscar Wilde was the most famous gay Irishman and Oscar's Shadow deals with Wilde and his homosexuality within the context of Ireland and of Irish cultural perceptions of his sexuality. The book investigates the questions: What was 'Oscar's shadow', his influence on twentieth and twenty-first century Irish culture and literature? What has Oscar Wilde meant to Ireland from his disgrace in May 1895 up to the present? Walshe presents Oscar's shadow in Ireland from 1895 to the present, using contemporary Irish newspaper reports of the Wilde trials of 1895, previously unpublished archival material, and a significant body of Irish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
164
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184837
SKU
V9781859184837
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Ref
99-10
About Eibhear Walshe
Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern English at University College Cork. He is the editor of Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O'Brien (Cork University Press, 1993), Sex, Nation and Dissent, (Cork University Press, 1997), Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings (2011)
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