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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... critical theory . Others at Cornell who offered welcome encouragement and support in- clude Lynda Bogel , Patty Chu , Susan Duhig , Heather Findlay , Mary Jacobus , Paul McClure , Lisa Moore , Terry Rowden , Talia Schaffer , and Mark ...
... critical theory . Others at Cornell who offered welcome encouragement and support in- clude Lynda Bogel , Patty Chu , Susan Duhig , Heather Findlay , Mary Jacobus , Paul McClure , Lisa Moore , Terry Rowden , Talia Schaffer , and Mark ...
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... critical project of exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do not want to define the genre in an abstract , theoretical fashion that aims to limit it to ...
... critical project of exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do not want to define the genre in an abstract , theoretical fashion that aims to limit it to ...
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... critical faith in a stable , pretextual self ; to the point where , as Olney states , " it is through that act [ of writing ] that the self and the life , complexly intertwined and entangled , take on a certain form , assume a ...
... critical faith in a stable , pretextual self ; to the point where , as Olney states , " it is through that act [ of writing ] that the self and the life , complexly intertwined and entangled , take on a certain form , assume a ...
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... critical and theoretical framework of this book is influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore the construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the ...
... critical and theoretical framework of this book is influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore the construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the ...
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... critical scrutiny that has previously been reserved for constructions of feminine roles , Butler and Sedgwick have succeeded in significantly broadening the range of gender studies . Each of the readings that follow seeks to develop the ...
... critical scrutiny that has previously been reserved for constructions of feminine roles , Butler and Sedgwick have succeeded in significantly broadening the range of gender studies . Each of the readings that follow seeks to develop the ...
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?