The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
Author: Joseph Pearce
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1681495643

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.

Making Oscar Wilde

Making Oscar Wilde
Author: Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198802366

Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Oscar's Ghost

Oscar's Ghost
Author: Laura Lee
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1445662590

The dramatic story of the legal and emotional battle that raged between two of Oscar Wilde's closest friends – both former lovers – following the playwright's death

The Invention of Oscar Wilde

The Invention of Oscar Wilde
Author: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1789144221

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.

Oscar Wilde in Vienna

Oscar Wilde in Vienna
Author: Sandra Mayer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004370463

Oscar Wilde in Vienna is the first book-length study in English of the reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in the German-speaking world. Charting the plays’ history on Viennese stages between 1903 and 2013, it casts a spotlight on the international reputation of one of the most popular English-language writers while contributing to Austrian cultural history in the long twentieth century. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book examines the appropriation of Wilde's plays against the background of political crises and social transformations. It unravels the mechanisms of cultural transfer and canonisation within an environment positioned — like Wilde himself — at the crossroads of centre and periphery, tradition and modernity.

Oscar

Oscar
Author: Matthew Sturgis
Publisher: Apollo
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781803284347

Death Unmasked

Death Unmasked
Author: Rick Sulik
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 164438020X

Death Unmasked, written by a thirty-nine year veteran cop, is a suspenseful, mystery police thriller spanning lifetimes, using karma, psychic ability, remote viewing, and out-of-body experience to out-wit an evil incarnated entity stalking women in, Houston, Texas. With each murder, the madman quotes an excerpt from the Oscar Wilde poem, 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.' A huge smokestack belching smoke, a ragged flea market double-breasted wool coat, and an old antique picture frame bring the distant past back to haunt Houston Homicide Detective, Sean Jamison. With those catalysts, Jamison knows who he was in a past life, and that he lost the only woman he could ever love. Searching for his reincarnated mate becomes Jamison's raison d'être as he and fellow detectives scour Houston for a brutal serial killer. The memory of timeless love drives Jamison's dogged search for a serial killer, determined to finish what he started decades earlier. Each clue brings Jamison closer to unmasking his old nemesis. Tenacious police work, lessons learned in the past, and intuition may be the only weapons he has in preventing history from repeating itself. A Novel of Past Lives & Retribution.

Masking and Unmasking Ourselves

Masking and Unmasking Ourselves
Author: Dr. Norman J. Cohen
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1580238394

Presents Bible stories that involve clothing in an essential way as a means of learning about the text, its characters and their interactions. Uses the garments of the Bible to show us how to shed our own layers of covering and reveal our authentic selves.

Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil
Author: Joseph Pearce
Publisher: Saint Benedict Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 161890065X

Before he was the world's foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain. Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions—often violent—that swirled around London in the late-1970s and early 80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front, and the editor of its newspaper, The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary. In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life. In Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including: The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National Front and their racist platform His dark, angry, exhilarating but ultimately empty days as a revolutionary on the front lines His imprisonment and subsequent dark night of the soul The role that Catholic luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis played in his conversion from racist radical to joyful Christian And his eventual reception in the Catholic Church Race with the Devil is one man's incredible journey to Christ, but it also much more. It is a testament to God's hand active among us and the infinite grace that Christ pours out on his people, showing that we can all turn—or return—to Christ and his Church.

Oscar Wilde in America

Oscar Wilde in America
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0252092880

Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.