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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Title
Dedication
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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