How a trip to the US influenced Oscar Wilde

Wilde would later reconfigure the Americans' provincial attacks against him and commodify them into concentrated doses of dizzy drama, Mendelssohn argues. Toying with fashionable French literary conventions, he internalized the minstrel mockery of high society and made it his own distinctive whiteface brand.

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