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WILDE IN AMERICA INTERVIEWS
Overview
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews,
edited by Matthew Hofer and Gary Scharnhorst (University of Illinois Press,
2010) is a welcome addition to scholarship on Wilde's American lecture tour. The
book includes annotated transcriptions of 48 newspaper interviews with Wilde
dated to 1882. These are arranged chronologically. Also included is a
"Bibliography of All Known Interviews with Oscar Wilde" citing 107 Wilde
interviews, 98 from 1882.
The OWSoA INTERVIEWS calendar features 1882
American newspaper interviews with Wilde not included in Hofer and
Scharnhorst's "Bibliography of All Known Interviews with Oscar Wilde."
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