Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 669 pages) |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Why was Paris so popular as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century? Using French, English and American sources, this first volume of a trilogy provides a possible answer with a detailed exploration of both the city and its communities, who, forming a varied cast of colourful characters from duchesses to telephonists, artists to beggars, and dancers to diplomats, crowd the stage. Through the throng moves Oscar Wilde as the connecting thread: Wilde exploratory, Wilde triumphant, Wilde ruined. This use of Wilde as a central figure provides both a cultural history of P. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Paris.
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Travel -- France -- Paris.
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Travel. |
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Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 19th century.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Rose, David Charles. Oscar Wilde's elegant republic : transformation, dislocation and fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris. Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2015 xvii, 669 pages 9781443883603 |
ISBN |
1443887633 (electronic book) |
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9781443887632 (electronic book) |
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1443883603 |
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9781443883603 |
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