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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal

By (author) Merlin Holland

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THE DEFINITIVE STUDY OF OSCAR WILDEâ€™S POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION, WRITTENÂ BY WILDEâ€™S ONLY GRANDSON Oscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what have regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death. With pathos, humour, and his grandfatherâ€™s signature wit, Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, and traces the dramatic fluctuations in Wildeâ€™s posthumous reputation over the past 125 years. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, After Oscar tells the story of Oscarâ€™s wife Constance and his sons Cyril and Vyvyan; his lovers, friends, and enemies; the afterlife of De Profundis; sightings from beyond the grave; the fate of the Wilde estate; and Oscarâ€™s contemporary status as a gay icon. The most important work on Wilde in over fifty years, After Oscar exposes decades of sensationalist conjecture surrounding the Wilde family, and documents a century of homophobia within the British establishment. Illuminating and heartbreaking, Holland has written a book that will amuse, infuriate, fascinate, and shock. Readers bewareâ€”youâ€™re in for a Wilde ride.