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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... influence as a teacher and thinker may be de- tected in these pages . Joseph Bristow provided some helpful guidance while I was working on Edward Carpenter in Sheffield . Mary Poovey offered most constructive suggestions for revision at ...
... influence as a teacher and thinker may be de- tected in these pages . Joseph Bristow provided some helpful guidance while I was working on Edward Carpenter in Sheffield . Mary Poovey offered most constructive suggestions for revision at ...
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... influential and popular of literary genres . As sev- eral important critics have demonstrated , there was an ... influences the Victorian novel in its exploration of individual origins , identity , experience , and de- velopment ...
... influential and popular of literary genres . As sev- eral important critics have demonstrated , there was an ... influences the Victorian novel in its exploration of individual origins , identity , experience , and de- velopment ...
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... influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore the construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at ...
... influenced by a range of theoretical texts that explore the construction of and contra- dictions within male roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at ...
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... influenced by the field of gender theory . The writings of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are exemplary in ... influence should be discernible in each section . Part of the reason for devoting less exclusive attention to Pater ...
... influenced by the field of gender theory . The writings of Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick are exemplary in ... influence should be discernible in each section . Part of the reason for devoting less exclusive attention to Pater ...
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... influential counterdiscourse with which to contest the increasingly dominant and negative cate- gorizations of same - sex desire . If the cataclysmic effects of the prose- cution and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in some ways contributed ...
... influential counterdiscourse with which to contest the increasingly dominant and negative cate- gorizations of same - sex desire . If the cataclysmic effects of the prose- cution and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in some ways contributed ...
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?