Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007746289/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 26 of
26
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""The Billing trial's beginnings can be traced to the moment British authorities finally permitted a staging of Wilde's play Salome. American beauty Maud Allan was to dance the lead. So outraged was Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values, that he denounced Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the "Cult of the Clitoris." Billing was convinced that the "Cult of Wilde"--A catchall for anyone guilty of degeneracy and perversion, in his eyes - had infected the land. Of that, Billing maintained, he had proof: a black book containing the names of 47,000 members of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the Cult of Wilde was in the hands of the Germans. Threat of exposure was costing England the war." "Maud Allan sued Billing for libel, and the trial that followed held the world in thrall. Was there or was there not a black book? What names did it contain? The Billing trial was both hugely entertaining - never had scandal and social prominence been so deliciously juxtaposed - and deadly serious. As in Oscar Wilde's own trial in 1895 (which also took place at the Old Bailey), libel was hardly the issue; the fight was for control over the country's moral compass. In Oscar Wilde's Last Stand, biographer and historian Philip Hoare gives us the full drama of the Billing trial, gavel to gavel, and brings to life this unique, bizarre, and spell-binding event."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10711541.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""The Billing trial's beginnings can be traced to the moment British authorities finally permitted a staging of Wilde's play Salome. American beauty Maud Allan was to dance the lead. So outraged was Noel Pemberton Billing, a member of Parliament and self-appointed guardian of family values, that he denounced Allan in the right-wing newspaper Vigilante as a member of the "Cult of the Clitoris." Billing was convinced that the "Cult of Wilde"--A catchall for anyone guilty of degeneracy and perversion, in his eyes - had infected the land. Of that, Billing maintained, he had proof: a black book containing the names of 47,000 members of the British establishment who without doubt were members of the Cult of Wilde was in the hands of the Germans. Threat of exposure was costing England the war." "Maud Allan sued Billing for libel, and the trial that followed held the world in thrall. Was there or was there not a black book? What names did it contain? The Billing trial was both hugely entertaining - never had scandal and social prominence been so deliciously juxtaposed - and deadly serious. As in Oscar Wilde's own trial in 1895 (which also took place at the Old Bailey), libel was hardly the issue; the fight was for control over the country's moral compass. In Oscar Wilde's Last Stand, biographer and historian Philip Hoare gives us the full drama of the Billing trial, gavel to gavel, and brings to life this unique, bizarre, and spell-binding event."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-240) and index.".
- catalog description "The cult of Wilde -- That awful persecution -- The self-appointed task -- Salomania -- The forty-seven thousand -- The trial -- Kicking Oscar's corpse -- The verdict -- This generation of vipers -- Aftermath -- Ain't we got fun.".
- catalog extent "vi, 250 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1559704233".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Arcade Pub.,".
- catalog spatial "England London.".
- catalog subject "345.41/0256 21".
- catalog subject "Allan, Maud.".
- catalog subject "Billing, Noel Pemberton, 1881-1948 Trials, litigation, etc.".
- catalog subject "KD373.B54 H63 1998".
- catalog subject "Trials (Libel) England London.".
- catalog subject "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Salome.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The cult of Wilde -- That awful persecution -- The self-appointed task -- Salomania -- The forty-seven thousand -- The trial -- Kicking Oscar's corpse -- The verdict -- This generation of vipers -- Aftermath -- Ain't we got fun.".
- catalog title "Oscar Wilde's last stand : decadence, conspiracy, and the most outrageous trial of the century / Philip Hoare.".
- catalog type "Trials, litigation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".