{"product_id":"beautiful-untrue-things-forging-oscar-wildes-extraordinary-afterlife-hardcover","title":"Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory MacKie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay \"The Decay of Lying,\" this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde's early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Untrue Things \u003c\/i\u003erecovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde's continued cultural impact at a moment when he had fallen out of favour with the literary establishment. It probes the activities of a series of eccentric and often outrageous figures who inhabited Oscar Wilde's much-mythologized authorial persona - in forging him, they effectively wrote \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e Wilde - in order to argue that literary forgery can be reimagined as a form of performance. But to forge Wilde and generate \"beautiful untrue things\" in his name is not only an exercise in role-playing - it is also crucially a form of imaginative world-making, resembling what we describe today as fan fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregory Mackie\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924587512115,"sku":"9781487502904","price":160.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/HC1IevERy59781487502904.webp?v=1793832635","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/beautiful-untrue-things-forging-oscar-wildes-extraordinary-afterlife-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}