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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... Magdalen College and to the British Library Department of Manuscripts. Gratitude is due to Greg Glazov and Stratford Caldecott at Plater College for furnishing me with hospitality during my trips to Oxford. I am indebted to Father ...
... University Gazette on St Patrick's Day 1874 , that Magdalen College would award two Demyships ( scholarships ) in classics by examination on 23 June . Each paid £ 95 a year and could be held for five years . Wilde felt so confident of ...
... Magdalen College who , in Benson's view , ' had a ghost of a chance in a tussle with Wilde ' was J. T. Wharton , who rowed seven in the Varsity Eight . Wharton held Wilde in considerable respect , commenting on the latter's deceptive ...
... College, he had published his Studies in the History of the Renaissance. A year later, during his first term at Magdalen, Wilde fell under its spell. Henceforth, in Wilde's imagination, Pater's seductively amoral approach to the ...
... Magdalen College resolved that Mr Wilde having absented himself during this term up to the present time without permission , be not allowed to reside for the Easter and Trinity Terms , and that he be deprived of the emoluments of his ...
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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 | |