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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... aesthetic values , " then this is because the subjectivity of the genre always threatens to undermine its historical authority . In this book I focus on autobiography as a discourse of the self in which the sig- nificant product is not ...
... aesthetic values , " then this is because the subjectivity of the genre always threatens to undermine its historical authority . In this book I focus on autobiography as a discourse of the self in which the sig- nificant product is not ...
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... aesthetic form . With this book I seek to participate in and hope to contrib- ute to the exciting critical project of exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I ...
... aesthetic form . With this book I seek to participate in and hope to contrib- ute to the exciting critical project of exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I ...
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... aesthetic as well as a his- torical function . " " The first would identify " confession " as the his- torically prior and religiously sanctioned form of oral discourse , to be later supplanted by the secular , written autobiography ...
... aesthetic as well as a his- torical function . " " The first would identify " confession " as the his- torically prior and religiously sanctioned form of oral discourse , to be later supplanted by the secular , written autobiography ...
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... aesthetic form of the narrative . Yet , at the same time , the specific import of the confessional secret is not individually determined but historically contingent and culturally embedded . This approach to the confession as ...
... aesthetic form of the narrative . Yet , at the same time , the specific import of the confessional secret is not individually determined but historically contingent and culturally embedded . This approach to the confession as ...
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... aesthetic writing , for example , has enriched our awareness of the cultural centrality of same - sex desire in the Victo- rian period . Subsequent discussions of Pater by Herbert Sussman and James Eli Adams have built on Dellamora's ...
... aesthetic writing , for example , has enriched our awareness of the cultural centrality of same - sex desire in the Victo- rian period . Subsequent discussions of Pater by Herbert Sussman and James Eli Adams have built on Dellamora's ...
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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aesthetic Algy Anglo-Catholicism Apologia argues attack autobiography biography Bosie Bosie's Catholicism celibacy Charles Kingsley confession confessional construction context critical cultural Days and Dreams Dellamora described disclosure discourse displaced Dollimore Dorian Gray Douglas dramatic E. M. Forster Earnest Edelman Edward Carpenter effeminacy episode erotic example fact feminine fiction Forster friends gender Greek Gribsby Harrow heterosexual homosexual Hukin Ibid ideal influence Intermediate Sex John Addington Symonds John Henry Newman Kingsley Kingsley's Koestenbaum literary Lord Alfred Douglas male manliness masculine Maurice Memoirs Merrill Millthorpe moral narrative nature Newman novel O'Brien Oscar Wilde Oxford Oxford movement passion perversion play poem political prison letter Profundis published reader reading relationship religious reveal rhetorical role Rowbotham and Weeks same-sex desire scandal secrecy secret sexual desire Sexual Inversion significance sion social Socialist specific suggests Symonds Symonds's textual tion transgressive trials Vaughan Victorian Whitman Wilde's working-class writing wrote
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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?