Oscar Wilde, Interviews and Recollections
Author : Edward Halim Mikhail
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
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Category : English literature
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Oscar Wilde, Interviews and Recollections
Author : E. H. Mikhail
Publisher : London : Macmillan Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Oscar Wilde
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349039233
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Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow
Author : David Goodway
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1604866675
Book Description
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.
Recollections of Oscar Wilde
Author : Charles S. Ricketts
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9781843680710
Book Description
A highly personal memoir of Oscar Wilde, and a close copy of the 1932 original, which was limited to 800 copies Reprinted here for the first time since the limited edition of 1932, this is one of the most evocative and touching memoirs ever written about Oscar Wilde and the circles he moved in. Charles Ricketts was one of his closest friends; he also worked on stage productions and books with Wilde. Shortly before he died he wrote this account of his friendship with Wilde, partly as an imagined conversation with a fictitious French writer, Jean Paul Raymond. The memoir was printed by one of the great book designers of the following generation, Francis Meynell. This edition reproduces that original design, including the spectacular cover based by Ricketts on his designs for Salomé. An afterword by Matthew Sturgis puts the work in the context of the 1880s and 1890s, of Wilde's astonishing success and terrible downfall.
Oscar Wilde
Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674737946
Book Description
Nicholas Frankel presents a revisionary account of Oscar Wilde’s final years, spent in poverty and exile in Europe following his release from an English prison for the crime of gross indecency between men. Despite repeated setbacks and open hostility, Wilde—unapologetic and even defiant—attempted to rebuild himself as a man, and a man of letters.
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Author : Neil McKenna
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786734922
Book Description
Oscar Wilde said of himself, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work." Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men. McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's life, drawing on extensive new material, including never-before published poems as well as recently discovered trial statements made by male prostitutes and blackmailers about Wilde. McKenna provides explosive evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde's trials for sodomy, as well as his central role in the burgeoning gay world of Victorian London. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde fully charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld and paints a frank and vivid psychological portrait of a troubled genius.
The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681495643
Book Description
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.
Oscar Wilde on Trial
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300268432
Book Description
The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency” Among the most infamous prosecutions of a literary figure in history, the two trials of Oscar Wilde for committing acts of “gross indecency” occurred at the height of his fame. After being found guilty, Wilde spent two years in prison, emerged bankrupt, and died in a cheap hotel room in Paris a few years after his release. The trials prompted a new intolerance toward homosexuality: habits of male bonding that were previously seen as innocent were now viewed as a threat, and an association grew in the public mind between gay men and the arts. Oscar Wilde on Trial assembles accounts from a variety of sources, including official and private letters, newspaper accounts, and previously published (but very incomplete) transcripts, to provide the most accurate and authoritative account to date of events that were pivotal in both legal and cultural history.
Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic Education
Author : Leanne Grech
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2019-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030143740
Book Description
This book focuses on the role that the Oxford classical curriculum has had in shaping Oscar Wilde’s aestheticism. It positions Wilde as a classically trained intellectual and outlines the path he took to gain recognition as a writer and promoter of the aesthetic movement. This narrative is conveyed through a broad range of literary sources, including Wilde’s travel poetry, American lectures, and canonical works like ‘The Critic as Artist’, The Soul of Man, The Picture of Dorian Gray and De Profundis. This study proposes that Wilde approached aestheticism as a personalised, self-directed learning experience – a mode of self-culture – which could be used to maintain an intellectual life outside of the university. It also explores Wilde’s thoughts on education and considers the significance of male friendship at Oxford, and in Wilde’s life and literature.
