Mad, bad, dangerous to know
the fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
Tóibín, Colm
1955-
creator
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bibliography
biography
enk
2018
monographic
eng
185 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter-writer who could never finish apainting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and story-teller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work. Colm Toibin illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work. Copac
Introduction -- An eminent Victorian: Sir William Wilde -- John B. Yeats: the playboy of west twenty-ninth street -- The two tenors: James Joyce and his father
Colm Tóibín.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wilde, Oscar
1854-1900
Family
Wilde, W. R. (William Robert)
1815-1876
Yeats, John Butler
1839-1922
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
1865-1939
Family
Joyce, James
1882-1941
Family
Joyce, John Stanislaus
1849-1931
English literature
Irish authors
19th century
History and criticism
Fathers and sons in literature
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