The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

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Ignatius Press, 3. 9. 2009 - 400 strán (strany)

Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself.

Joseph Pearce's biography strips away pretensions to show the real man, his aspirations and desires. It uncovers how he was broken by his prison sentence; it probes the deeper thinking behind masterpieces such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis; and it traces his fascination with Catholicism through to his eleventh-hour conversion.

Pearce removes the masks and reveals the Wilde beneath the surface. He has written a profound, wide-ranging study with many original insights on a great literary figure.

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Preface to the Second Edition Preface
Acknowledgements
Mother of Masks
Star in the Ascendancy
Oxford Donned
Courting Conversion
Roman Fever
Loves
Malice Through the Looking Glass
Critic or Artist
Friends and Relations
Saints and Sinners
Fatal Attraction
Courting Conviction
Descent
Abyss

Courting Controversy
Poetry and Pose
Courting Constance
The French Connection
Truth and Masks
Purity and Passion
Poison and Passion
Unhappy Hypocrite
Purgatory
Out of the Depths
Wilderness
Hounded by Heaven
Revelations
Endnotes
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Joseph Pearce
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O tomto autorovi (2009)

Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous literary works including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare and Shakespeare on Love, and the editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions series. His other books include literary biographies of Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Bibliografické informácie

NázovThe Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
AutorJoseph Pearce
VydavateľIgnatius Press, 2009
Kód ISBN1681495643, 9781681495644
Dĺžka400 strán (strany)
  
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