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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... writing and publishing in the nineteenth century , in terms of both the volume of autobiographies written and published and the diversity of social groups achieving representation in this lit- erary form . As the genre became more ...
... writing and publishing in the nineteenth century , in terms of both the volume of autobiographies written and published and the diversity of social groups achieving representation in this lit- erary form . As the genre became more ...
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... writing of this experi- ence under the guise of the fictional protagonist in David Copperfield . Dickens's compulsion to confess this " secret " to the public who knew him only as a successful author is matched by a desire to prevent ...
... writing of this experi- ence under the guise of the fictional protagonist in David Copperfield . Dickens's compulsion to confess this " secret " to the public who knew him only as a successful author is matched by a desire to prevent ...
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... written in 1897 while Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol- was written by the most notorious invert of the Victorian age . De Profundis - the title given to the letter , only on its posthumous publi- cation , in expurgated form , in ...
... written in 1897 while Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Gaol- was written by the most notorious invert of the Victorian age . De Profundis - the title given to the letter , only on its posthumous publi- cation , in expurgated form , in ...
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... written over a much longer period of time than were the other auto- biographies discussed here - disavows an identity based exclusively on desire for men , choosing to subordinate same - sex desire to a more broadly defined Socialist ...
... written over a much longer period of time than were the other auto- biographies discussed here - disavows an identity based exclusively on desire for men , choosing to subordinate same - sex desire to a more broadly defined Socialist ...
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... written autobiography . Hence , as James Olney writes , the early stage of the genre occurred " when auto- biography ... writing , with a specific ideological function of self- disclosure by means of a self - scarifying discourse . If ...
... written autobiography . Hence , as James Olney writes , the early stage of the genre occurred " when auto- biography ... writing , with a specific ideological function of self- disclosure by means of a self - scarifying discourse . If ...
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?