Ceremonies of Bravery : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191636578
- 828.809
- DC354 -- .M34 2013eb
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 Affair -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z.
Based on materials from Blacker's personal papers Ceremonies of Bravery paints a picture of the famous friendship between Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker, and how it came to an end amidst the political scandal of the Dreyfus affair.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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