Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-476) and index.
Contents:
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 at 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 Gray : a 'tale with a moral' -- 'It is personalities, not principles that move the age' -- High life, low life and little literary life -- Salome : 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' -- Epilogue.
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