02848cam a2200361 i 4500 273350027 TxAuBib 20161003120000.0 160921s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781608199877 1608199878 TxAuBib rda O'Sullivan, Emer,. The Fall of the House of Wilde : Oscar Wilde and his family / Emer O'Sullivan. First U.S. edition. New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016. xii, 495 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-476) and index. Roots -- Lust for Knowledge -- Patron-cum-Scholar -- Rising High -- The Burgeois 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 to America -- 'Mr Oscar Wilde is "not such a fool as he looks"' -- Marriage: A Gold Band Sliced in Half -- 'The Crushes' -- Aethetic Living -- Momentous Changes -- Colonial Resistance -- The Picture of Dorian Grey: A 'tale with moral' -- 'It is personalities, not principles that move the age' -- High Life, Low Life and Little Literary Life -- Salomé: 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' -- Facinf 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'. "A first-ever biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu finally tells the whole story of one of the most prominent characters of the late 19th century whose trial for indecency heralded decadence's demise - and his own."--NoveList. 20161003. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Family. Wilde, Lady, 1821-1896. Wilde, W. R (William Robert), 1815-1876. Authors, Irish 19th century Biography. Women revolutionaries Ireland Biography. Revolutionaries Ireland Biography. Physicians Ireland Biography.