The Unmasking of Oscar WildeIgnatius 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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... Wilde or each other to remember that the subject of their passion was first and foremost an artist who expressed the deepest secrets about himself in his art . ' We are all in the gutter , ' says Lord Darlington in Lady Windermere's Fan ...
... Wilde's complex character. His public persona, cultivated carefully from his youth onwards, was a calculated pose. He became the poseur par excellence, creating ... Lady Wilde wore masks as others wore clothes, and her Mother of Masks.
... Lady Wilde's maiden name was Elgee and, according to family tradition, or so Lady Wilde maintained, the Elgee family was originally called Algiati. It was easy to imply that Algiati was itself a corruption of Alighieri and ipso facto ...
... Wilde ensured that Maturin's hero would hold Wilde even more in his thrall than he might otherwise have done ... Lady Wilde's maternal great - grandfather Dr. Kingsbury was a well - known physician and friend of Jonathan Swift ...
... Lady Wilde's father , became a lawyer . Lady Wilde's mother , Sarah , was the daughter of another Protestant cleric , Thomas Kingsbury , who divided his time between his duties as vicar of Kildare and his secular responsibilities as ...
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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 | |