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• W3044462305 abstract "Reviewed by: Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life by Kimberly J. Stern Rebecca Nesvet (bio) Kimberly J. Stern, Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. xi + 266, $24.99 paperback, $19.99 e-book. Lord Henry Wotton possesses seventeen different photographs of Dorian Gray, Lady Wotton explains in Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Of course he does, because there are infinite possible snapshots of every potential biographical subject. Similarly, Wilde’s brief, intense life and multimedia oeuvre justify at least seventeen biographies. Historically, most Wilde biographies neglect his periodical reading and writing. What periodicals and periodical content did he read, particularly outside imaginative literature? How did periodicals shape his thought, writing, action, and ethos? Kimberly J. Stern’s new biography, Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life, answers these questions as part of her investigation of “Wilde’s relationship to the intellectual currents of his day” (18). The book is intended particularly for “the non-specialist reader,” and Stern posits Wilde as “a springboard for their own intellectual sallies” (18). In the process, Stern reveals the overlooked significance of Wilde’s encounters with multidisciplinary periodical literature and surveys his considerable contribution to fin de siècle periodical culture. Stern, editor of the profoundly accessible and informative 2017 Broad-view edition of Wilde’s play Salome (1891), innovatively tells Wilde’s life [End Page 299] story out of chronological order as a series of vocational experiments. Just as Wotton scans the seventeen Dorians, Stern surveys several realized and fledgling Oscar Wildes across six chapters: “The Biographer,” “The Teacher,” “The Priest,” “The Philosopher,” “The Reformer,” and even— absolutely persuasively—“The Scientist.” Periodicals play a large role in Wilde’s cultivation of each of these identities. His career begins with a periodical serial: an unfinished contribution by his late father, Dr. (later Sir) William Wilde, MD, to the Journal of the Royal Archaeological and Historical Association of Ireland on the eighteenth-century Dutch-Irish artist Gabriel Belanger. Upon his father’s death, Wilde decided to finish this piece, claiming to forgo other academic plans in order to do so. Informed by Sir William’s methodology, Wilde “took issue . . . with” Victorian biography’s alienation of the artistic subject from their socio-cultural contexts (3). This conviction went on to shape The Picture of Dorian Gray. Also, as a young emerging writer who was entranced by Catholicism, Wilde published theological poetry in the Catholic Irish Monthly, causing his outraged half-brother Dr. Henry Wilson to reduce his inheritance. Stern highlights Wilde’s book reviews for magazines, including the Woman’s World, the progressive women’s journal he edited in the 1880s. One review, of Early Christian Art in Ireland (1887), continues to chase Sir William’s ghost. Stern argues it also expresses more clearly than any of Wilde’s canonical works his longing for an ecumenical solution to Christianity’s sectarian fissures. For the Pall Mall Gazette, Wilde reviewed poetry by Marc-André Raffalovich, who wrote, as Frederick Roden argues, the first coming-out novel in English. (Raffalovich was also the lover of Wilde’s ex-lover John Gray.) Wilde provocatively enlists Raffalovich in an investigation of the ideal place of natural history in poetry. Although Wilde dismissed Raffalovich’s science-inspired writing, he later changed his mind, informed by Sir William’s contributions to scientific and medical journals and his own probable participation in his father’s research trips. Stern also finds Wilde profoundly shaped by his mother’s periodical writing for the Nation, the main print platform of the Young Ireland movement. Under the pseudonym “Speranza” (Hope), Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee) published thirty-nine poems in the Nation, followed by the essay “Jacta Alea Est” (The Die Is Cast), which, in Stern’s summary, is a “grim fantasy of revolt against Dublin Castle” occasioned by the famine (225). In response to this missive, the Crown prosecuted the editor of the Nation for sedition and shuttered his periodical. Raised on this lore, Wilde “love[d] and revere[d]” his mother “as a cultural and political hero” (226). Perhaps she gave him the courage that informs his own best ethical challenges to political doctrine and social custom. Stern..." @default.
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