Ceremonies of bravery [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair / / J. Robert Maguire

• Autore: Maguire J. Robert
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 828.809
• Soggetto topico: Scandals - France - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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'; Epilogue ; Appendix: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ceremonies of bravery
• ISBN: 1-283-98658-2; 0-19-163657-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789313103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II