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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... role of the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde in forming the modern definition of the homo- sexual according to the specific stereotype of the sexual " corrupter . " Alan Sinfield , for example , argues that " the trials helped to produce a ...
... role of the 1895 trials of Oscar Wilde in forming the modern definition of the homo- sexual according to the specific stereotype of the sexual " corrupter . " Alan Sinfield , for example , argues that " the trials helped to produce a ...
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... role in the representation of new , transgressive forms of sexuality and subjec- tivity . As Jeremy Tambling writes , " The subject is fully constituted when aspects of behaviour ( subjective , free ) are read by others as ...
... role in the representation of new , transgressive forms of sexuality and subjec- tivity . As Jeremy Tambling writes , " The subject is fully constituted when aspects of behaviour ( subjective , free ) are read by others as ...
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... roles and experiences , because , as Smith writes , " examples that bely the opposition abound . Men write of private experiences ; women , of their public activities . " 29 To argue that the male autobiographers discussed in this book ...
... roles and experiences , because , as Smith writes , " examples that bely the opposition abound . Men write of private experiences ; women , of their public activities . " 29 To argue that the male autobiographers discussed in this book ...
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... roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at times contesting or subverting — the hegemonic representations of mascu- linity has emerged as a central theme ...
... roles and " identities " in the Victorian period . In particular , the pivotal role of same - sex desire in influencing — at times contesting or subverting — the hegemonic representations of mascu- linity has emerged as a central theme ...
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... roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover , by subjecting the cultural forms of " masculinity " to the same critical scrutiny that has ...
... roles and sexual categories than for their rigorously detailed pursuit of the historically specific forms of those constructions . Moreover , by subjecting the cultural forms of " masculinity " to the same critical scrutiny that has ...
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?