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Author Maguire, J. Robert.

Title Ceremonies of bravery : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair / by J. Robert Maguire
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 213 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents ""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""
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed February 19, 2013)
Subject Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Friends and associates
Blacker, Carlos, 1857-1928 -- Friends and associates
Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935.
SUBJECT Blacker, Carlos, 1857-1928 fast
Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 fast
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 fast
Subject Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography
Trials (Treason) -- France -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors, Irish
Friendship
Trials (Treason)
France
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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