The Unmasking of Oscar WildeHarperCollins, 2000 - 301 strán (strany) Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, in the 1990s, Oscar Wilde is hailed as a progressive sexual liberator. But this is not how Wilde saw himself. His actions and pretences did not bring him happiness and fulfilment: his art did. |
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... Irish nationhood which was out of step with the increasingly vocif- erous Catholic majority . It is tempting to conclude , even though it may be taking the case a step further than the evidence will carry it , that Speranza's ...
... Irish nationhood which was out of step with the increasingly vocif- erous Catholic majority . It is tempting to conclude , even though it may be taking the case a step further than the evidence will carry it , that Speranza's ...
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... Irish nationalism by this time . ' It is a noble privilege to count oneself of the same race as Keats or Shakespeare , ' he declared , wishing away his Irish blood in favour of an imagined Englishness . In the same letter , Wilde ...
... Irish nationalism by this time . ' It is a noble privilege to count oneself of the same race as Keats or Shakespeare , ' he declared , wishing away his Irish blood in favour of an imagined Englishness . In the same letter , Wilde ...
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... Irish émigrés , Wilde's mother was a heroine of Irish nationalism and Wilde a hero by associ- ation . As such , the city's sizeable Irish population sought him out as the son of Speranza . He was beseeched to deliver an extra lecture on ...
... Irish émigrés , Wilde's mother was a heroine of Irish nationalism and Wilde a hero by associ- ation . As such , the city's sizeable Irish population sought him out as the son of Speranza . He was beseeched to deliver an extra lecture on ...
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