Mansfield Fox

Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.

Saturday, September 18, 2004

Wot I'm Reading

"Unmasking Oscar Wilde" by Joseph Pearce

It's a biography that tries to place Wilde in the context not of the English literary mainstream of his day, but in the Oxford Movement inspired by Cardinal Newman and in the French Catholic-revival of the period. I'm not sure if it works, but it's an interesting idea. I'll get back to you.

Incidentally, the author, Joseph Pearce, is pretty interesting in his own right.