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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... significance of the individual self , a perspective that perhaps takes on its fullest cultural embodi- ment in the middle - class liberal ideology of individualism in the Victorian period . In this context , the autobiography is a ...
... significance of the individual self , a perspective that perhaps takes on its fullest cultural embodi- ment in the middle - class liberal ideology of individualism in the Victorian period . In this context , the autobiography is a ...
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... significance of writing , or textuality , in autobiography therefore increases in proportion to the dissolution of critical faith in a stable , pretextual self ; to the point where , as Olney states , " it is through that act [ of ...
... significance of writing , or textuality , in autobiography therefore increases in proportion to the dissolution of critical faith in a stable , pretextual self ; to the point where , as Olney states , " it is through that act [ of ...
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... significance of " marginality " is considerable in tracing the history of Victorian homosexual confession , because the confessional subject writes from a position explicitly defined as one of cultural exclusion . Hence , I will argue ...
... significance of " marginality " is considerable in tracing the history of Victorian homosexual confession , because the confessional subject writes from a position explicitly defined as one of cultural exclusion . Hence , I will argue ...
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... significance of these works , read collectively , might be to broaden and modify our current understanding of Victorian gender roles and representations . The risk of occupying a " feminine " role- of being stigmatized as " effeminate ...
... significance of these works , read collectively , might be to broaden and modify our current understanding of Victorian gender roles and representations . The risk of occupying a " feminine " role- of being stigmatized as " effeminate ...
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... significance to our current constructions of gender roles and ideologies . The work of these critics is of consequence because in it they explore the intersections between same - sex desire and other key Victorian discourses , such as ...
... significance to our current constructions of gender roles and ideologies . The work of these critics is of consequence because in it they explore the intersections between same - sex desire and other key Victorian discourses , such as ...
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?