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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... respect to both historical analysis and literary value . If , as Paul de Man suggests , " autobiography always looks slightly disreputable and self - indulgent in a way that may be symptomatic of its incompatibility with the monumental ...
... respect to both historical analysis and literary value . If , as Paul de Man suggests , " autobiography always looks slightly disreputable and self - indulgent in a way that may be symptomatic of its incompatibility with the monumental ...
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... respect to the relation between confession , desire , and subjectivity , Foucault argues that " the truthful confession was inscribed at the heart of the procedures of individualization by power . " 13 This formulation , more than any ...
... respect to the relation between confession , desire , and subjectivity , Foucault argues that " the truthful confession was inscribed at the heart of the procedures of individualization by power . " 13 This formulation , more than any ...
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... respects , according to de Man's observation that " the concept of genre designates an aesthetic as well as a his- torical function . " " The first would identify " confession " as the his- torically prior and religiously sanctioned ...
... respects , according to de Man's observation that " the concept of genre designates an aesthetic as well as a his- torical function . " " The first would identify " confession " as the his- torically prior and religiously sanctioned ...
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... respect to gender — determines the degree of authority with which she or he speaks as an autobiographer . Yet although what Smith calls " the intersection between ideologies of selfhood and ideologies of gender " has been explored in ...
... respect to gender — determines the degree of authority with which she or he speaks as an autobiographer . Yet although what Smith calls " the intersection between ideologies of selfhood and ideologies of gender " has been explored in ...
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... respect , less for their theoretical in- sistence on the culturally inscribed status of gender roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover ...
... respect , less for their theoretical in- sistence on the culturally inscribed status of gender roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover ...
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?