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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... figure for Wilde's own disavowed past , which he must repudiate to arrive at what he terms his " new life . " Finally , Edward Carpenter's autobiography , My Days and Dreams , though begun in the nineteenth century , was completed only ...
... figure for Wilde's own disavowed past , which he must repudiate to arrive at what he terms his " new life . " Finally , Edward Carpenter's autobiography , My Days and Dreams , though begun in the nineteenth century , was completed only ...
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... figure in a literary work , several of the writers in effect construct their own confessor / auditor to whom the narrative is im- plicitly or explicitly addressed and from whom a subsequent response may be anticipated . Accordingly , in ...
... figure in a literary work , several of the writers in effect construct their own confessor / auditor to whom the narrative is im- plicitly or explicitly addressed and from whom a subsequent response may be anticipated . Accordingly , in ...
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... figure , that is to say no longer clearly and simply a referent at all but some- thing more akin to a fiction . " Along these lines , de Man takes the approach that the formal limits and rhetorical structure of autobiog- raphy take ...
... figure , that is to say no longer clearly and simply a referent at all but some- thing more akin to a fiction . " Along these lines , de Man takes the approach that the formal limits and rhetorical structure of autobiog- raphy take ...
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... figure in the transition between the Oxford movement , represented by Newman , and later Victorian constructions of same sex - desire is that of Walter Pater . Though Pater might seem to be missing from this volume - in that there is no ...
... figure in the transition between the Oxford movement , represented by Newman , and later Victorian constructions of same sex - desire is that of Walter Pater . Though Pater might seem to be missing from this volume - in that there is no ...
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... figure of the " dandy , " which becomes more vulnerable to attack as forms of masculine gender transgression be- come conflated with homosexuality toward the end of the century . Adams investigates the seeming paradox that Victorian ...
... figure of the " dandy , " which becomes more vulnerable to attack as forms of masculine gender transgression be- come conflated with homosexuality toward the end of the century . Adams investigates the seeming paradox that Victorian ...
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?