The Invention of Oscar WildeOne should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art, Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde's inventive, provocative life, from his Irish originsand their public erasurethrough his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, to his criminal