How Long to Read Beautiful Untrue Things

How Long Does it Take to Read Beautiful Untrue Things?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Beautiful Untrue Things by Gregory Mackie

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Borrowing 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. Beautiful Untrue Things recovers the careers of several forgers who successfully inhabited the persona of the Victorian era’s most infamous homosexual and arguably its most successful dramatist. More 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 as 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.

How long is Beautiful Untrue Things?

Beautiful Untrue Things by Gregory Mackie is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beautiful Untrue Things Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Beautiful Untrue Things aloud.

What Reading Level is Beautiful Untrue Things?

Beautiful Untrue Things is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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