“A Criminal with a Noble Face”:  Oscar Wilde’s Encounters with the Victorian Gaol by Kristian Williams

“A Criminal with a Noble Face”: Oscar Wilde’s Encounters with the Victorian Gaol by Kristian Williams Prologue: A Visit to An American Jail During his American tour of 1882, Oscar Wilde visited Lincoln, Nebraska, and lectured there propounding the doctrines of the aestheticist movement with which he was associated. Afterward, his hosts took him for [...]