Title:
Ceremonies of bravery : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair / J. Robert Maguire.
Author:
Maguire, J. Robert.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Call Number:
PR5823 .M34 2013
Abstract:
'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.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780199660827
Physical Description:
x, 213 pages, [30] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
'The greatest friendship of my life' -- 'Sadness, disappointment, upset, & weariness' -- 'The girl with the foghorn voice' -- 'He has been mad the last 3 years' -- 'Letters from two idiots to a lunatic' -- 'The most better experience of a bitter life' -- 'The Dreyfus-case Paris cannot be figured by the Paris of today' -- 'Paradoxes are always dangerous things' -- 'No one should know such an infamous person as Bosie' -- 'He was a great genius. His familiar talk was golden' -- Appendix: Carlos Blacker's 'private and confidential' memorandum on the Dreyfus Affair.
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