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The fall of the house of Wilde : Oscar Wilde and his family / Emer O'Sullivan.

by O'Sullivan, Emer.

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Family.

Wilde, Lady, 1821-1896.

Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876.

Dramatists, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.

Novelists, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography

Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.

Women revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.

Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography.

Physicians -- Ireland -- Biography.

Scandals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

9781608199877 (hc.)

Alternate title:

House of Wilde : Oscar Wilde and his family

Oscar Wilde and his family

xii, 495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [445]-476) and index.

Roots -- Lust for knowledge -- Patron-cum-scholar -- Rising high -- The bourgeois rebel -- Flirtations, father figures and femmes fatales -- Marriage -- Merrion Square -- The Wildean missionary zeal -- Wider horizons -- Open house -- 1864: the end of bliss -- Honour and ignominy -- Love, hatred and revenge: the 'great libel case' -- Times are changing -- More highs, more blows -- Transience and poetry -- The unravelling -- Dabbling with options and ideas -- Openings and closings -- Literary Bohemia -- Divergent paths -- Looking to America -- 'Mr Oscar Wilde is "not such a fool as he looks"' -- Marriage: a gold band sliced in half -- 'The crushes' -- Aesthetic living -- Momentous changes -- Colonial resistance -- The Picture of Dorian Grey: a 'tale with moral' -- 'It is personalities, not principles that move the age' -- High life, low life and little literary life -- Salomé: the breaking of taboos -- 'Truly you are a starling' -- Fatal affairs -- An un-ideal husband -- Letting rip -- 'It is said that passion makes one think in a circle' -- Facing fate -- Impotent silence -- The 'disgraced' name -- Author of a legend -- 'We all come out of prison as sensitive as children' -- 'I have fiddled too often on the string of doom' -- 'I am really in the gutter'.

"It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic - but lesser so that he owed these characteristics to his parents. Oscar's mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocating a rebellion against colonialism in 1848. Proud, involved, and challenging, she opened a salon and was known as the most scintillating hostess of her day. She passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who drank it in greedily. His father, Sir William Wilde, was acutely conscious of injustices of the social order. He laid the foundations for the Celtic cultural renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shockwaves through Dublin society. After his death, the Wildes decamped to London where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn't suit him was that of Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath his swelling head was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was unable to recognize when the party was over. Ultimately, his trial for indecency heralded the death of decadence - and his own. Oscar Wilde was a member of one of the most dazzling Irish American families of Victorian times. This biography places him in the broader social, political, and religious context. A fresh and perceptive account of one of the most prominent characters of the late nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

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