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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... construction of the " homo- sexual " in terms of a specific sexual crime , sodomy . In Sinfield's account , the modern homosexual emerges when " the entire , vaguely disconcerting nexus of effeminacy , leisure , idleness , immorality ...
... construction of the " homo- sexual " in terms of a specific sexual crime , sodomy . In Sinfield's account , the modern homosexual emerges when " the entire , vaguely disconcerting nexus of effeminacy , leisure , idleness , immorality ...
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... construction of modern sexual subjectivities , estab- lishing a confessional practice whereby a " reverse discourse " might alternately appropriate , reinscribe , decode , and subvert dominant discourses of power , desire , and gender ...
... construction of modern sexual subjectivities , estab- lishing a confessional practice whereby a " reverse discourse " might alternately appropriate , reinscribe , decode , and subvert dominant discourses of power , desire , and gender ...
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... construction of a specific narrative persona enables the work of confession to take place . Of course , it is conventional to assume that confession differs from the dramatic monologue precisely in that the narrator , protagonist , and ...
... construction of a specific narrative persona enables the work of confession to take place . Of course , it is conventional to assume that confession differs from the dramatic monologue precisely in that the narrator , protagonist , and ...
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... construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at times contesting or subverting — the hegemonic representations ...
... construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at times contesting or subverting — the hegemonic representations ...
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... constructions . Moreover , by subjecting the cultural forms of " masculinity " to the same critical scrutiny that has previously been reserved for constructions of feminine roles , Butler and Sedgwick have succeeded in significantly ...
... constructions . Moreover , by subjecting the cultural forms of " masculinity " to the same critical scrutiny that has previously been reserved for constructions of feminine roles , Butler and Sedgwick have succeeded in significantly ...
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?