Where: Penn Newman Center, Lower Level (3720 Chestnut St, Philadelphia)
FEATURING:
Paul Fortunato, Associate Professor of English, University of Houston – Downtown, and author of Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde (Routledge, 2007).
ABSTRACT:
Oscar Wilde was received into the Catholic Church on his death bed, but critics are divided as to how sincere his conversion was. We will discuss Wilde’s faith journey, from his days at Oxford, when he first thought of becoming Catholic, through his fast and furious days of success as a London playwright, through his time in prison for his homosexuality, and beyond.
For those interested, the lecture is preceded by Mass at 7:30 a.m.
