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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... textual inscription that same - sex desire becomes legible as a basis of subjectivity that transcends a range of same - sex practices . Autobiography , in particular , has been centrally involved in the discursive construction of modern ...
... textual inscription that same - sex desire becomes legible as a basis of subjectivity that transcends a range of same - sex practices . Autobiography , in particular , has been centrally involved in the discursive construction of modern ...
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... textual reticence that adumbrate the space in which a private " self " might be construed . According to Sidonie Smith , " As notions of an authori- tative speaker , intentionality , truth , meaning , and generic integrity are rejected ...
... textual reticence that adumbrate the space in which a private " self " might be construed . According to Sidonie Smith , " As notions of an authori- tative speaker , intentionality , truth , meaning , and generic integrity are rejected ...
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... textual difference have an impact on theories of narrative , particularly autobiographical nar- rative , " then the specific and historically changing forms of this rela- tionship between sexuality and textuality need to be traced in ...
... textual difference have an impact on theories of narrative , particularly autobiographical nar- rative , " then the specific and historically changing forms of this rela- tionship between sexuality and textuality need to be traced in ...
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... textual crises Sedgwick designates as " homosexual panic . " " By the same token , the role of " woman " is determined , in homosocial texts , by the displacement of prohibited same - sex desire that underwrites the male homosocial bond ...
... textual crises Sedgwick designates as " homosexual panic . " " By the same token , the role of " woman " is determined , in homosocial texts , by the displacement of prohibited same - sex desire that underwrites the male homosocial bond ...
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... textual anxiety and reserve surrounding representations of desire in the later narratives and to acknowledge the constraints that continued to affect their production . An important index of this intensification of cultural hostility ...
... textual anxiety and reserve surrounding representations of desire in the later narratives and to acknowledge the constraints that continued to affect their production . An important index of this intensification of cultural hostility ...
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?