Secret Selves: Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian AutobiographyFocusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original |
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... conceive of as the self may , in fact , be derived from autobiography rather than being its prediscursive " referent . " 1 Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information INTRODUCTION: The Self and Its Secrets.
... conceive of as the self may , in fact , be derived from autobiography rather than being its prediscursive " referent . " 1 Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information INTRODUCTION: The Self and Its Secrets.
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Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography Oliver S. Buckton. Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information that is with- held utterly from discourse or knowledge but to illuminate a cen- tral and productive ...
Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography Oliver S. Buckton. Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information that is with- held utterly from discourse or knowledge but to illuminate a cen- tral and productive ...
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... Hence , the chapters are based on readings of individual works that are formally and thematically heterogeneous , aside from thematic co- incidence of same - sex desire . In the chapter on John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , the ...
... Hence , the chapters are based on readings of individual works that are formally and thematically heterogeneous , aside from thematic co- incidence of same - sex desire . In the chapter on John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , the ...
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... Hence , I treat it as a post - Victorian autobiographical narrative characterized by a new willingness to disclose the author's homosexuality to the reading public . But Carpenter's narrative— written over a much longer period of time ...
... Hence , I treat it as a post - Victorian autobiographical narrative characterized by a new willingness to disclose the author's homosexuality to the reading public . But Carpenter's narrative— written over a much longer period of time ...
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... Hence , confession plays a unique role in the representation of new , transgressive forms of sexuality and subjec- tivity . As Jeremy Tambling writes , " The subject is fully constituted when aspects of behaviour ( subjective , free ) ...
... Hence , confession plays a unique role in the representation of new , transgressive forms of sexuality and subjec- tivity . As Jeremy Tambling writes , " The subject is fully constituted when aspects of behaviour ( subjective , free ) ...
Contents
An Unnatural State Secrecy and Perversion in John Henry Newmans Apologia pro Vita Sua | 21 |
The Secret Which I Carried Desire and Displacement in John Addington Symondss Memoirs | 60 |
Defacing Oscar Wilde | 107 |
A Double Nature The Hidden Agenda of Edward Carpenters My Days and Dreams | 161 |
Strange Desires Sexual Reconstruction in E M Forsters Secret Fictions | 206 |
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Page 12 - We assume that life produces the autobiography as an act produces its consequences, but can we not suggest, with equal justice, that the autobiographical project may itself produce and determine the life and that whatever the writer does is in fact governed by the technical demands of self-portraiture and thus determined, in all its aspects, by the resources of his medium?