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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... 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 label of the " homosexual " or " invert ...
... 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 label of the " homosexual " or " invert ...
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... practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaphrodism of the soul . " Fou- cault's characterization indicates not only the classification of new sexual categories but also the modern conception of sexuality itself in ...
... practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny , a hermaphrodism of the soul . " Fou- cault's characterization indicates not only the classification of new sexual categories but also the modern conception of sexuality itself in ...
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... practices . Autobiography , in particular , has been centrally involved in the discursive construction of modern sexual subjectivities , estab- lishing a confessional practice whereby a " reverse discourse " might alternately ...
... practices . Autobiography , in particular , has been centrally involved in the discursive construction of modern sexual subjectivities , estab- lishing a confessional practice whereby a " reverse discourse " might alternately ...
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... practices of reading.35 Dellamora , in the most far - reaching analysis of Pater's aesthetic discourse to date , has revealed the carefully crafted transgression of Victorian gender roles at the very heart of Pater's critical practice ...
... practices of reading.35 Dellamora , in the most far - reaching analysis of Pater's aesthetic discourse to date , has revealed the carefully crafted transgression of Victorian gender roles at the very heart of Pater's critical practice ...
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... practices seeking the articulation of same - sex desire , while being inevitably shaped by the incriminating logic of the Labouchere Amendment of 1885. Moreover , although one must never forget that secrecy had an urgent ideological ...
... practices seeking the articulation of same - sex desire , while being inevitably shaped by the incriminating logic of the Labouchere Amendment of 1885. Moreover , although one must never forget that secrecy had an urgent ideological ...
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?