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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... Nature : The Hidden Agenda of Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams , 161 Epilogue . Strange Desires : Sexual Reconstruction in E. M. Forster's Secret Fictions , 206 Notes , 219 Works Cited , 251 Index , 261 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In working ...
... Nature : The Hidden Agenda of Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams , 161 Epilogue . Strange Desires : Sexual Reconstruction in E. M. Forster's Secret Fictions , 206 Notes , 219 Works Cited , 251 Index , 261 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In working ...
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... nature of language , embedded in the text lie alternative or deferred identities that constantly subvert any preten- sions of truthfulness . " 21 Indeed , as Olney argues , summarizing the poststructuralist assault on autobiography ...
... nature of language , embedded in the text lie alternative or deferred identities that constantly subvert any preten- sions of truthfulness . " 21 Indeed , as Olney argues , summarizing the poststructuralist assault on autobiography ...
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... nature of its truth , the emergence of its formal structures , the struggle with identity , even the assumption of a motivating self — are displaced by a new concern for the graphia . " 24 The significance of writing , or textuality ...
... nature of its truth , the emergence of its formal structures , the struggle with identity , even the assumption of a motivating self — are displaced by a new concern for the graphia . " 24 The significance of writing , or textuality ...
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... nature . This injunction surfaces in the sexual and textual crises Sedgwick designates as " homosexual panic . " " By the same token , the role of " woman " is determined , in homosocial texts , by the displacement of prohibited same ...
... nature . This injunction surfaces in the sexual and textual crises Sedgwick designates as " homosexual panic . " " By the same token , the role of " woman " is determined , in homosocial texts , by the displacement of prohibited same ...
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... nature of the particular relationship between the rhetoric of a text and the sexual discourse of the wider culture : that is , to what aesthetic , erotic , and ideological ends the strategy of secrecy is deployed . The central figures ...
... nature of the particular relationship between the rhetoric of a text and the sexual discourse of the wider culture : that is , to what aesthetic , erotic , and ideological ends the strategy of secrecy is deployed . The central figures ...
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?