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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... social contexts . At the same time , it is precisely this " subjective " mode of autobiographical discourse - often in the form of " personal " revelations and reminis- cences , directed toward the evolution of a particular identity or ...
... social contexts . At the same time , it is precisely this " subjective " mode of autobiographical discourse - often in the form of " personal " revelations and reminis- cences , directed toward the evolution of a particular identity or ...
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... 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 it , and autobiography ... displays and produces ...
... 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 it , and autobiography ... displays and produces ...
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... social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do not want to define the genre in an abstract , theoretical fashion that aims to limit it to particular , formal paradigms or ideals . Hence , the chapters are based on readings of ...
... social , aesthetic , and cultural signifi- cations . I do not want to define the genre in an abstract , theoretical fashion that aims to limit it to particular , formal paradigms or ideals . Hence , the chapters are based on readings of ...
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... social and cul- tural situation of the author and the status of his or her literary self - representation . Of women's autobiography , for example , Sidonie Smith argues that " male writing about self ... assumed a privileged place in ...
... social and cul- tural situation of the author and the status of his or her literary self - representation . Of women's autobiography , for example , Sidonie Smith argues that " male writing about self ... assumed a privileged place in ...
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... social persona - are remarkably distinct , even contradictory at times . What is at stake , in other words , is not just the forbidden " content " behind the " veil " of secrecy but also the nature of the particular relationship between ...
... social persona - are remarkably distinct , even contradictory at times . What is at stake , in other words , is not just the forbidden " content " behind the " veil " of secrecy but also the nature of the particular relationship between ...
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?