"A generous and welcome sampling."--<i>New York Review of Books</i>
<p>"Highly recommended."--<i>Choice</i></p>
"[A] rewarding, absorbing, and necessary book."--<i>The Gay and Lesbian Review</i>
"Wilde was a source of fascination and provocation, and these assembled portraits reveal the rawness and the refinements, the pride and the anxieties, of American culture in the making during this important period. A vital and valuable book."--Eric Haralson, editor of <i>Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry</i>
"This stimulating work is an invaluable record of Wilde's speech, appearance, and demeanor. An excitingly fresh study of interest both to Wilde specialists and to general readers."--Donald Mead, chairman of the Oscar Wilde Society and editor of <i>The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies</i>