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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 37
Page
... Perversion , ' and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , " Victorian Studies 35 , no . 4 ( Summer 1992 ) : 359-83 , and is reprinted here with permission of the journal . 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 FOR LAURICE CONTENTS Acknowledgments , ix ...
... Perversion , ' and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , " Victorian Studies 35 , no . 4 ( Summer 1992 ) : 359-83 , and is reprinted here with permission of the journal . 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 FOR LAURICE CONTENTS Acknowledgments , ix ...
Page
... Perversion " in John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , 21 Chapter 2. The Secret Which I Carried : Desire and Displacement in John Addington Symonds's Memoirs , 60 Chapter 3. Defacing Oscar Wilde , 107 Chapter 4. A Double Nature ...
... Perversion " in John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua , 21 Chapter 2. The Secret Which I Carried : Desire and Displacement in John Addington Symonds's Memoirs , 60 Chapter 3. Defacing Oscar Wilde , 107 Chapter 4. A Double Nature ...
Page 4
... perverse , antisocial , and subversive practices and characteristics . To " confess " to homosexuality , therefore , is inevitably to go beyond the statement of sexual preference for other men . It is , inescapably , to receive the ...
... perverse , antisocial , and subversive practices and characteristics . To " confess " to homosexuality , therefore , is inevitably to go beyond the statement of sexual preference for other men . It is , inescapably , to receive the ...
Page 7
... perverse " sexual acts into the identity formation of " the homosexual . " Readers will recall Foucault's famous account in the History of Sexuality of how " homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed ...
... perverse " sexual acts into the identity formation of " the homosexual . " Readers will recall Foucault's famous account in the History of Sexuality of how " homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed ...
Page 17
... perverse " and trans- gressive sexual desires . If , for Pater , " the possibility of sexual contact with another man in an uncontrolled situation induces both ap- prehension and enticement , " then the imaginative engagement with ...
... perverse " and trans- gressive sexual desires . If , for Pater , " the possibility of sexual contact with another man in an uncontrolled situation induces both ap- prehension and enticement , " then the imaginative engagement with ...
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic Algy Anglo-Catholicism Apologia argues attack autobiography biography Bosie Bosie's Catholicism celibacy Charles Kingsley confession confessional construction context critical cultural Days and Dreams Dellamora described disclosure discourse displaced Dollimore Dorian Gray Douglas dramatic E. M. Forster Earnest Edelman Edward Carpenter effeminacy episode erotic example fact feminine fiction Forster friends gender Greek Gribsby Harrow heterosexual homosexual Hukin Ibid ideal influence Intermediate Sex John Addington Symonds John Henry Newman Kingsley Kingsley's Koestenbaum literary Lord Alfred Douglas male manliness masculine Maurice Memoirs Merrill Millthorpe moral narrative nature Newman novel O'Brien Oscar Wilde Oxford Oxford movement passion perversion play poem political prison letter Profundis published reader reading relationship religious reveal rhetorical role Rowbotham and Weeks same-sex desire scandal secrecy secret sexual desire Sexual Inversion significance sion social Socialist specific suggests Symonds Symonds's textual tion transgressive trials Vaughan Victorian Whitman Wilde's working-class writing wrote
Popular passages
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?