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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... question of an individual author's allegiance to a social group might become particularly vexed , for , as Julia Swindells . observes , " the individual neither constitutes nor is constituted by the social group , but is in tension with ...
... question of an individual author's allegiance to a social group might become particularly vexed , for , as Julia Swindells . observes , " the individual neither constitutes nor is constituted by the social group , but is in tension with ...
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... question the validity of — the rigid categories of " novel " and " autobiography " is merely to acknowledge , as Paul John Eakin has ex- pressed it , that " autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content , what we call ...
... question the validity of — the rigid categories of " novel " and " autobiography " is merely to acknowledge , as Paul John Eakin has ex- pressed it , that " autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an evolving content , what we call ...
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... question at stake here is nothing less than the timing and cir- cumstances of the emergence of modern sexual identities . Though the Wilde trials undoubtedly offered the most spectacular public drama of sexual crime and punishment of ...
... question at stake here is nothing less than the timing and cir- cumstances of the emergence of modern sexual identities . Though the Wilde trials undoubtedly offered the most spectacular public drama of sexual crime and punishment of ...
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... question , " When an author decides that a text will not be published until after his death , what is implied ... questions , even while calling attention to the fact - encountered frequently dur- ing the research involved in writing ...
... question , " When an author decides that a text will not be published until after his death , what is implied ... questions , even while calling attention to the fact - encountered frequently dur- ing the research involved in writing ...
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... question both historical and contemporary truths . In this process , textual politics can never be freed from sexual politics . " 46 It remains to be seen whether such " double framing " can be accomplished in practice . In the chapters ...
... question both historical and contemporary truths . In this process , textual politics can never be freed from sexual politics . " 46 It remains to be seen whether such " double framing " can be accomplished in practice . In the chapters ...
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?