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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... returned to Ireland only twice after he settled in London, and then only when he was paid to do so as a lecturer. He did not consider himself an Irish expatriate and seldom referred to either his own Irishness or the thorny question of ...
... Returning to Shaw's assertion , it is tempting to suggest that Wilde was a foreigner everywhere , even in Ireland . If Wilde's lifelong sense of alienation was rooted in his being a ' separated and peculiar kind of Irishman ' of the ...
... returned to England, the seeds of his influence remained, growing and ripening into a garden of well-bred converts whose success in winning others to Rome was causing considerable alarm among the hierarchy of the (Protestant) Church of ...
... returned to haunt him, their spirit inspiring the ballad for which they could easily serve as an epigraph. Oscar's ... Returning to Ireland briefly before re-embarking once more for his new life in England, Wilde received the ...
... Returning to Oxford , Wilde found himself discussing the teachings of the Church with fellow undergraduates . In the rooms of his friend W. W. Ward , he argued through the night with Ward and another friend , David Hunter Blair . The ...
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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 | |