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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... less the absolute limit of discourse , the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary , than an element that functions alongside the things said , with them and in relation to them within over - all strate- gies . There ...
... less the absolute limit of discourse , the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary , than an element that functions alongside the things said , with them and in relation to them within over - all strate- gies . There ...
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... less than the timing and cir- cumstances of the emergence of modern sexual identities . Though the Wilde trials undoubtedly offered the most spectacular public drama of sexual crime and punishment of the nineteenth century , I aim to ...
... less than the timing and cir- cumstances of the emergence of modern sexual identities . Though the Wilde trials undoubtedly offered the most spectacular public drama of sexual crime and punishment of the nineteenth century , I aim to ...
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... less as a straightforward revelation of the self's se- crets — designed to appease an external authority — than as a dialogic narrative strategy deeply invested in the negotiation of cultural and personal power . If the secrets of the ...
... less as a straightforward revelation of the self's se- crets — designed to appease an external authority — than as a dialogic narrative strategy deeply invested in the negotiation of cultural and personal power . If the secrets of the ...
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... less " ahead of " their age . On the con- trary , the significance of these works , read collectively , might be to broaden and modify our current understanding of Victorian gender roles and representations . The risk of occupying a ...
... less " ahead of " their age . On the con- trary , the significance of these works , read collectively , might be to broaden and modify our current understanding of Victorian gender roles and representations . The risk of occupying a ...
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... less for their theoretical in- sistence on the culturally inscribed status of gender roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover , by ...
... less for their theoretical in- sistence on the culturally inscribed status of gender roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover , by ...
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?