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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... Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century . 5. Gay men - Great Britain - Biography - History and criticism . 6. Gay men's writings , English - History and criticism . 7. Great Britain - History - Victoria ...
... Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century . 5. Gay men - Great Britain - Biography - History and criticism . 6. Gay men's writings , English - History and criticism . 7. Great Britain - History - Victoria ...
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... homosexuality , central to my argument is that no essential , innate relationship exists between secrecy and homosexual narrative . Rather , the desire for certain kinds of secrecy that appears in these autobiographies is relative to a ...
... homosexuality , central to my argument is that no essential , innate relationship exists between secrecy and homosexual narrative . Rather , the desire for certain kinds of secrecy that appears in these autobiographies is relative to a ...
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... homosexual in Victorian England . Writ- ten in response to the public ignorance of Symonds's own homosexu- ality and general prejudice against sexual " inversion , " the memoirs largely ignore his public persona as a respectable ...
... homosexual in Victorian England . Writ- ten in response to the public ignorance of Symonds's own homosexu- ality and general prejudice against sexual " inversion , " the memoirs largely ignore his public persona as a respectable ...
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... homosexuality to the reading public . But Carpenter's narrative— written over a much longer period of time than were the other auto- biographies discussed here - disavows an identity based exclusively on desire for men , choosing to ...
... homosexuality to the reading public . But Carpenter's narrative— written over a much longer period of time than were the other auto- biographies discussed here - disavows an identity based exclusively on desire for men , choosing to ...
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... homosexual . " Readers will recall Foucault's famous account in the History of Sexuality of how " homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior ...
... homosexual . " Readers will recall Foucault's famous account in the History of Sexuality of how " homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior ...
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?