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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... that is sealed by the proper name . " Lejeune argues that " this is true also for the one who is writing the text . If I write the story of my life without mentioning my name in it , how will my reader know that it was { Introduction } 3.
... that is sealed by the proper name . " Lejeune argues that " this is true also for the one who is writing the text . If I write the story of my life without mentioning my name in it , how will my reader know that it was { Introduction } 3.
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... argues , is an " incitement to speech , " whereby the individual " will seek to transform desire ... into discourse . " For mod- ern subjects , therefore , the " fundamental duty " becomes " the task of passing everything having to do ...
... argues , is an " incitement to speech , " whereby the individual " will seek to transform desire ... into discourse . " For mod- ern subjects , therefore , the " fundamental duty " becomes " the task of passing everything having to do ...
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... argues that " the truthful confession was inscribed at the heart of the procedures of individualization by power . " 13 This formulation , more than any other , links the confession to what he elsewhere describes as " a new specifica ...
... argues that " the truthful confession was inscribed at the heart of the procedures of individualization by power . " 13 This formulation , more than any other , links the confession to what he elsewhere describes as " a new specifica ...
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... argues , summarizing the poststructuralist assault on autobiography , the authority to assert a consistent " I " — linking author , protagonist , and narrator — in a text " has been of late so thoroughly compromised philosophically and ...
... argues , summarizing the poststructuralist assault on autobiography , the authority to assert a consistent " I " — linking author , protagonist , and narrator — in a text " has been of late so thoroughly compromised philosophically and ...
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... argue that the confessional secrecy of these narratives is produced in part by an unwillingness to jeopardize the cultural privilege and tex- tual authority of the Victorian male author . If , as Smith argues , " theories of sexual and ...
... argue that the confessional secrecy of these narratives is produced in part by an unwillingness to jeopardize the cultural privilege and tex- tual authority of the Victorian male author . If , as Smith argues , " theories of sexual and ...
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?