02663nam 2200577 a 450 991096186330332120251116195327.01-283-98658-20-19-163657-6(CKB)3460000000127928(EBL)3055050(OCoLC)922972136(SSID)ssj0000906424(PQKBManifestationID)11475093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000906424(PQKBWorkID)10934478(PQKB)10150322(StDuBDS)EDZ0000113782(MiAaPQ)EBC3055050(MiAaPQ)EBC7038288(Au-PeEL)EBL7038288(OCoLC)1086524598(EXLCZ)99346000000012792820130201d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCeremonies of bravery Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair /J. Robert Maguire1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press20131 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-966082-4 0-19-174892-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Plates; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'The Greatest Friendship of My Life'; 2. 'Sadness, Disappointment, Upset, & Weariness'; 3. 'The Girl with the Foghorn Voice'; 4. 'He Has Been Mad the Last 3 Years'; 5. 'Letters from Two Idiots to a Lunatic'; 6. 'The Most Bitter Experience of a Bitter Life'; 7. 'The Dreyfus-case Paris Cannot Be Figured by the Paris of Today'; 8. 'Paradoxes Are Always Dangerous Things'; 9. 'No One Should Know Such an Infamous Person as Bosie'; 10. 'He Was a Great Genius. His Familiar Talk Was Golden'; EpilogueAppendix: Carlos Blacker's 'Private and Cofidential' Memorandum on the Dreyfus AffairEndnotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y; Z'Ceremonies of Bravery' is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker. The two men met in the 1880s, the period when Wilde was judged by many to be at his best, and Blacker went on to become a trustee of Wilde's marriage settlement.ScandalsFranceHistory19th centuryScandalsHistory828.809Maguire J. Robert1859220MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961863303321Ceremonies of bravery4462797UNINA