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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... friendship , generosity , and insights of numerous individuals and institutions . It is a pleasure to be able to thank them here . I offer my apologies to those whom I may have omitted . In the early stages this project , I was ...
... friendship , generosity , and insights of numerous individuals and institutions . It is a pleasure to be able to thank them here . I offer my apologies to those whom I may have omitted . In the early stages this project , I was ...
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... friend Nick Anikitou in London , with whom I have enjoyed numerous conversa- tions about this project . There are two special debts that I cannot adequately put into words . To my parents , my first and best teachers , I offer thanks ...
... friend Nick Anikitou in London , with whom I have enjoyed numerous conversa- tions about this project . There are two special debts that I cannot adequately put into words . To my parents , my first and best teachers , I offer thanks ...
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... friends - Wilde rejects the rigidity of sexual ty- pologies and instead constructs a dual confession in which author and reader are linked by a shared responsibility for the tragic downfall of Wilde . However , this duality is impeded ...
... friends - Wilde rejects the rigidity of sexual ty- pologies and instead constructs a dual confession in which author and reader are linked by a shared responsibility for the tragic downfall of Wilde . However , this duality is impeded ...
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... friendship and bonding are used to further the inter- ests of nation , class , and ( male ) gender — that requires the injunction against a transgressive same - sex desire that would destabilize such bonds by making explicit their ...
... friendship and bonding are used to further the inter- ests of nation , class , and ( male ) gender — that requires the injunction against a transgressive same - sex desire that would destabilize such bonds by making explicit their ...
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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?