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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... example , has sought to differentiate the autobiography from other forms of narra- tive by focusing on the specific " contract " or " pact " formed between author and reader . In an important passage with direct bearing on the question ...
... example , has sought to differentiate the autobiography from other forms of narra- tive by focusing on the specific " contract " or " pact " formed between author and reader . In an important passage with direct bearing on the question ...
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... example , argues that " the trials helped to produce a major shift in perceptions of the scope of same - sex passion " and suggests that " there is no reason to suppose that Wilde either en- visaged , or would have wanted , a ...
... example , argues that " the trials helped to produce a major shift in perceptions of the scope of same - sex passion " and suggests that " there is no reason to suppose that Wilde either en- visaged , or would have wanted , a ...
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... example , few would interpret the dramatic personae exclusively as the autobiographical surrogates of their authors . And yet the self that is represented in the text— the autobiographical protagonist — can never precisely coincide with ...
... example , few would interpret the dramatic personae exclusively as the autobiographical surrogates of their authors . And yet the self that is represented in the text— the autobiographical protagonist — can never precisely coincide with ...
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... example , Sidonie Smith argues that " male writing about self ... assumed a privileged place in the canon ; female ... examples that bely the opposition abound . Men write of private experiences ; women , of their public activities ...
... example , Sidonie Smith argues that " male writing about self ... assumed a privileged place in the canon ; female ... examples that bely the opposition abound . Men write of private experiences ; women , of their public activities ...
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... example , would certainly reward such attention - I will concentrate on narratives of masculinity in the Victorian period . The critical and theoretical framework of this book is influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore ...
... example , would certainly reward such attention - I will concentrate on narratives of masculinity in the Victorian period . The critical and theoretical framework of this book is influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore ...
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?