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100 1 $aHoare, Philip.
245 10 $aOscar Wilde's last stand :$bdecadence, conspiracy, and the most outrageous trial of the century /$cPhilip Hoare.
250 $a1st North American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bArcade Pub.,$c1998.
300 $avi, 250 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 232-240) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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