{"product_id":"9781487502904","title":"Beautiful Untrue Things","description":"Author: Gregory Mackie\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781487502904\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Jul 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorrowing its title from Oscar Wilde's essay \"The Decay of Lying,\" this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde's early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, ironically enough, Wilde himself would have endorsed. \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Untrue Things \u003c\/i\u003erecovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era's most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore broadly, this study tells a larger story about Oscar Wilde's continued cultural impact at a moment when he had fallen out of favour with the literary establishment. It probes the activities of a series of eccentric and often outrageous figures who inhabited Oscar Wilde's much-mythologized authorial persona  in forging him, they effectively wrote \u003ci\u003eas\u003c\/i\u003e Wilde  in order to argue that literary forgery can be reimagined as a form of performance. But to forge Wilde and generate \"beautiful untrue things\" in his name is not only an exercise in role-playing  it is also crucially a form of imaginative world-making, resembling what we describe today as fan fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919508947102,"sku":"ING-9781487502904","price":135.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781487502904.jpg?v=1782813294","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781487502904","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}