Gregory Mackie

Beautiful Untrue Things

Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife

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Produktbeschreibung

Beautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781487502904
• ISBN-10: 1487502907
• Artikelnr.: 55487014

Autorenporträt

Gregory Mackie is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures and the Norman Colbeck curator of rare books at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Truth of Fakes
1. The Importance of Being Authentic
2. The Picture of Dorian Hope
3. Pen, Pencil, and Planchette
4. The Devoted Fraud
Conclusion: The Teacher of Fandom
Notes
Bibliography