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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... Ruskin, at fifty-five, was probably the most celebrated art critic in England. He had been the most vociferous ... Ruskin between 10 November and 4 December 1874. The theme of the lectures was 'The Aesthetic and Mathematic Schools ...
... Ruskin aestheticism in art was inseparable from morality , which , in the case of Florentine art , had its roots in the moral foundations of medieval Christendom . Consequently , the aesthetic inevitably suffered when the humanism of ...
... Ruskin's especial wheelbarrow' and that he had been solemnly instructed by the master himself in the mysteries of wheeling such a vehicle from place to place. Ruskin and Wilde became friends, seeing each other regularly, and Wilde ...
... Ruskin's disciple. Yet by the time Wilde arrived at Oxford, the disciple was in rebellion. Twenty years Ruskin's junior, Pater saw himself as the older man's natural successor. He was still only in his mid- thirties when, in 1873, as a ...
... Ruskin's disciple not Pater's . Wilde knew , though sometimes he chose to forget , that the highest common factors of life were its loves and not its lusts . It was these that transfused and transformed his art, imbuing the Pater ...
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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 | |