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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... important critics have demonstrated , there was an explosion of autobiographical writing and publishing in the nineteenth century , in terms of both the volume of autobiographies written and published and the diversity of social groups ...
... important critics have demonstrated , there was an explosion of autobiographical writing and publishing in the nineteenth century , in terms of both the volume of autobiographies written and published and the diversity of social groups ...
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... important passage with direct bearing on the question of autobiographical fiction , Lejeune seeks to include in the definition of the autobiographical novel " all fictional texts in which the reader has reason to suspect , from the ...
... important passage with direct bearing on the question of autobiographical fiction , Lejeune seeks to include in the definition of the autobiographical novel " all fictional texts in which the reader has reason to suspect , from the ...
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... important common feature of the works discussed is the narration of a self that is not simply re- vealed but also produced or mediated by the pressure of secrecy . Each narrative was either undertaken as a response to charges of secrecy ...
... important common feature of the works discussed is the narration of a self that is not simply re- vealed but also produced or mediated by the pressure of secrecy . Each narrative was either undertaken as a response to charges of secrecy ...
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... Important as these legal and scientific factors are , they cannot fully account for the preeminence of secrecy in Victorian autobiographical narrative . Instead of focusing on an author's desire to avoid self- incriminating revelations ...
... Important as these legal and scientific factors are , they cannot fully account for the preeminence of secrecy in Victorian autobiographical narrative . Instead of focusing on an author's desire to avoid self- incriminating revelations ...
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... important subject for historical analysis and academic study but is also of central significance to our current constructions of gender roles and ideologies . The work of these critics is of consequence because in it they explore the ...
... important subject for historical analysis and academic study but is also of central significance to our current constructions of gender roles and ideologies . The work of these critics is of consequence because in it they explore the ...
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?