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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... once to conceal and to reveal his own " shameful " childhood experience as a menial laborer in Warren's Blacking Warehouse , by writing of this experi- ence under the guise of the fictional protagonist in David Copperfield . Dickens's ...
... once to conceal and to reveal his own " shameful " childhood experience as a menial laborer in Warren's Blacking Warehouse , by writing of this experi- ence under the guise of the fictional protagonist in David Copperfield . Dickens's ...
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... once narrower and more punitive . The confession takes as its starting point the admis- sion of sin , guilt , or some other form of error , the purpose of the narrative being to strip the self of its protective secrets , ostensibly to ...
... once narrower and more punitive . The confession takes as its starting point the admis- sion of sin , guilt , or some other form of error , the purpose of the narrative being to strip the self of its protective secrets , ostensibly to ...
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... once and for all from its referential function , asking whether " the illu- sion of reference [ is ] not a correlation of the structure of the figure , that is to say no longer clearly and simply a referent at all but some- thing more ...
... once and for all from its referential function , asking whether " the illu- sion of reference [ is ] not a correlation of the structure of the figure , that is to say no longer clearly and simply a referent at all but some- thing more ...
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... once creating an aura of mystique and prohibition around the concealed experience and establishing " a peculiar authority in the author . " Adams allows still more specificity to the " secret " in Pater as a " mask " for homo- erotic ...
... once creating an aura of mystique and prohibition around the concealed experience and establishing " a peculiar authority in the author . " Adams allows still more specificity to the " secret " in Pater as a " mask " for homo- erotic ...
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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?