Jun 08 2021 36 mins
Gregory Mackie's new book is Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife, published by University of Toronto Press (2019). This charmingly written monograph is an innovative study of Wilde’s afterlives, which is to say, all the ways in which his legend continued to circulate after his trials and death by way of literary forgeries and impersonations.