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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... narrative strategy deployed in Victorian autobiographi- cal writing , and the emergence of same - sex desire as a particular site , or " subject , " of secrecy in nineteenth- and early - twentieth - century British culture . As a genre ...
... narrative strategy deployed in Victorian autobiographi- cal writing , and the emergence of same - sex desire as a particular site , or " subject , " of secrecy in nineteenth- and early - twentieth - century British culture . As a genre ...
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... narratives that I discuss were written ( though not in some cases during which they were published ) coincides with the emergence of autobiography as one of the most influential and popular of literary genres . As sev- eral important ...
... narratives that I discuss were written ( though not in some cases during which they were published ) coincides with the emergence of autobiography as one of the most influential and popular of literary genres . As sev- eral important ...
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... narrative theory . Philippe Lejeune , for example , has sought to differentiate the autobiography from other forms of narra- tive by focusing on the specific " contract " or " pact " formed between author and reader . In an important ...
... narrative theory . Philippe Lejeune , for example , has sought to differentiate the autobiography from other forms of narra- tive by focusing on the specific " contract " or " pact " formed between author and reader . In an important ...
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... narrative reveals ambivalence about the risks and exposure encountered by the self that seeks to " confess . " Though the thematic context for this autobiographical tension between secrecy and disclosure is that of homosexuality ...
... narrative reveals ambivalence about the risks and exposure encountered by the self that seeks to " confess . " Though the thematic context for this autobiographical tension between secrecy and disclosure is that of homosexuality ...
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... narrative , inevitably repudi- ated as sexual predators and manipulators . By contrast , Oscar Wilde's letter to his lover , Lord Alfred Douglas —written in 1897 while Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol- was written by the most ...
... narrative , inevitably repudi- ated as sexual predators and manipulators . By contrast , Oscar Wilde's letter to his lover , Lord Alfred Douglas —written in 1897 while Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol- was written by the most ...
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?