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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... exploring the possibility of representing forms of subjective experience , autobiography offers rich opportuni- ties for apprehending the ways in which the " self " is conceived of and constituted in specific historical periods and ...
... exploring the possibility of representing forms of subjective experience , autobiography offers rich opportuni- ties for apprehending the ways in which the " self " is conceived of and constituted in specific historical periods and ...
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... form that most directly influences the Victorian novel in its exploration of individual origins , identity , experience , and de- velopment . Without the literary and philosophical investment in the 2 { Introduction }
... form that most directly influences the Victorian novel in its exploration of individual origins , identity , experience , and de- velopment . Without the literary and philosophical investment in the 2 { Introduction }
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... exploration of personal sexual desires and practices , that these autobiographers find their subject matter and ... exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do ...
... exploration of personal sexual desires and practices , that these autobiographers find their subject matter and ... exploring the various forms of autobiography in terms of their social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do ...
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... exploration of autobiographical meanings that are culturally produced and histori- cally determined . For example , John Addington Symonds's memoirs , written during the four years before his death in 1893 , were not pub- lished until ...
... exploration of autobiographical meanings that are culturally produced and histori- cally determined . For example , John Addington Symonds's memoirs , written during the four years before his death in 1893 , were not pub- lished until ...
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... often becomes a matter of exploring the interstices of literary texts- their silences , opacities , evasions , and omissions . For if the self is con- stituted by the very act of " confession , " 10 { Introduction } 10.
... often becomes a matter of exploring the interstices of literary texts- their silences , opacities , evasions , and omissions . For if the self is con- stituted by the very act of " confession , " 10 { Introduction } 10.
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?