Submitted by nbbillings on February 24, 2008
Oscar Wilde- 1895
Ed Cohen's Talk on the Wilde Side discusses the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Cohen explores the lack of legal transcripts of the case that relies on newspaper press reports and accounts to document this lawsuit. His investigations into the clarity of the newspaper accounts found that they "were themselves highly mediated stories whose narrative structures organized and gave meaningful shapes to the events they purported to accurately represent" (4). In the second part of his book, Cohen discusses Oscar Wilde's trial and its importance, the results of the fictionalized newspaper accounts of the proceedings, as well as the role of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray...
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