Marquess of Queensberry : Wilde's nemesis /

The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, following a series of events inspired by Wilde's romantic interest in his so...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratmann, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, > Marquis of, > 1844-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Nobility > Scotland > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Nobility.
Scotland.
Biography
Biographies.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgements
  • Queensberry Family Trees
  • Introduction: The Card
  • CHAPTER 1. Son and Heir
  • CHAPTER 2. The Queensberry Inheritance
  • CHAPTER 3. The Young Gentleman
  • CHAPTER 4. Night on a Mountain
  • CHAPTER 5. 'He Thought He Loved'
  • CHAPTER 6. The Game and Sporting Lord
  • CHAPTER 7. Original Notions
  • CHAPTER 8. Judged by his Peers
  • CHAPTER 9. An Undercurrent of Eccentricity
  • CHAPTER 10. Full of Woes
  • CHAPTER 11. Four Sons and a Daughter
  • CHAPTER 12. The Antipathy of Similars
  • CHAPTER 13. A Serious Slight
  • CHAPTER 14. Wounded Feelings
  • CHAPTER 15. Catastrophe
  • CHAPTER 16. A Family Divided
  • CHAPTER 17. The Peer and the Poet
  • CHAPTER 18. In the Dock
  • CHAPTER 19. The Price of Victory
  • CHAPTER 20. 'Where Stars shall ever shed their Light'
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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