Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality
By Stuart Mason · Running time 3:55:59 · General Fiction, *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography
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“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i] One of the nastiest of the British tabloids was founded a year too late to join in the moral panic generated to accompany Oscar Wilde’s court appearances in 1895. Yet there was no shortage of hypocritical journalists posing as moral arbiters to the nation, then as now. This compendium work - skillfully assembled by the editor, Stuart Mason - ends with transcript of Wilde’s first appearanc
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