
The Fall of the House of Wilde
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The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times and shows us how he was utterly his parents' child.
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Oscar Wilde's father - scientist, surgeon, archaeologist, writer - was one of the most eminent men of his generation. His mother - poet, journalist, translator - hosted an influential salon in Dublin's Merrion Square. Together they were one of Victorian Ireland's most dazzling and enlightened couples. When, in 1864, Sir William Wilde was accused of sexually assaulting a female patient, it sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death ten years later, Jane attempted to re-establish the family in London, where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene, only subsequently to fall in a trial as public as his father's.
A brilliantly perceptive family biography, The Fall of the House of Wilde is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, placing Wilde in the context of his own remarkable family and more broadly within Anglo-Irish society.
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- Cover
- Praise for The Fall of the House of Wilde
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Roots
- 2 Lust for Knowledge
- 3 Patron-cum-Scholar
- 4 Rising High
- 5 The Bourgeois Rebel
- 6 Flirtations, Father Figures and Femmes Fatales
- 7 Marriage
- 8 Merrion Square
- 9 The Wildean Missionary Zeal
- 10 Wider Horizons
- 11 Open House
- 12 1864: The End of Bliss
- 13 Honour and Ignominy
- 14 Love, Hatred and Revenge: The 'Great Libel Case'
- 15 Times are Changing
- 16 More Highs, More Blows
- 17 Transience and Poetry
- 18 The Unravelling
- 19 Dabbling with Options and Ideas
- 20 Openings and Closings
- 21 Literary Bohemia
- 22 Divergent Paths
- 23 Looking to America
- 24 'Mr Oscar Wilde is "not such a fool as he looks"'
- 25 Marriage: A Gold Band Sliced in Half
- 26 'The Crushes'
- 27 Aesthetic Living
- 28 Momentous Changes
- 29 Colonial Resistance
- 30 The Picture of Dorian Gray: A 'tale with a moral'
- 31 'It is personalities, not principles that move the age'
- 32 High Life, Low Life and Little Literary Life
- 33 Salomé: The Breaking of Taboos
- 34 'Truly you are a starling'
- 35 Fatal Affairs
- 36 An Un-Ideal Husband
- 37 Letting Rip
- 38 'It is said that Passion makes one think in a circle'
- 39 Facing Fate
- 40 Impotent Silence
- 41 The 'Disgraced' Name
- 42 Author of a Legend
- 43 'We all come out of prison as sensitive as children'
- 44 'I have fiddled too often on the string of Doom'
- 45 'I am really in the gutter'
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- A Note on the Author
- Plate Section
- Copyright
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