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02635aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AEDC2616B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 190304t20192019onca b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1487502907 020 $a 9781487502904 035 $a (OCoLC)1089006019 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d NLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d NLC $d YDX $d NLC $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a PR5827 I52 M33x 2019 055 0 $a PR5827.I52 $b M33 2019 082 0 $a 828/.809 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Mackie, Gregory, $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Beautiful untrue things : $b forging Oscar Wilde's extraordinary afterlife / $c Gregory Mackie. 263 $a 201906 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xii, 287 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index. 520 $a "Borrowing 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. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More 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 as 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 600 10 $a Wilde, Oscar, $d 1854-1900 $x Influence. 600 10 $a Wilde, Oscar, $d 1854-1900 $x Forgeries. 650 0 $a Fan fiction $x History. 650 0 $a Literary forgeries and mystifications. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214015912.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191105025414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AEDC2616B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search