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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... what we conceive of as the self may , in fact , be derived from autobiography rather than being its prediscursive " referent . " 1 Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information INTRODUCTION: The Self and Its Secrets.
... what we conceive of as the self may , in fact , be derived from autobiography rather than being its prediscursive " referent . " 1 Hence , secrecy is used here not to denote information INTRODUCTION: The Self and Its Secrets.
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... fact and fiction being rather slippery variables in an intricate process of self - discovery . " 5 The problem of the relation between autobiographer and reader has produced some of the most interesting work in the field of contemporary ...
... fact and fiction being rather slippery variables in an intricate process of self - discovery . " 5 The problem of the relation between autobiographer and reader has produced some of the most interesting work in the field of contemporary ...
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... fact enabled by a countervailing secrecy , in which the narrative presents a selective and incomplete portrait of Carpenter's sexual history . Though Carpenter's courage in revealing his homosexuality in a published autobiography was ...
... fact enabled by a countervailing secrecy , in which the narrative presents a selective and incomplete portrait of Carpenter's sexual history . Though Carpenter's courage in revealing his homosexuality in a published autobiography was ...
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... fact governed by the technical demands of self - portraiture and thus determined , in all its aspects , by the re- sources of his medium . ” 23 To the extent that autobiographical discourse produces , rather than merely reproduces , our ...
... fact governed by the technical demands of self - portraiture and thus determined , in all its aspects , by the re- sources of his medium . ” 23 To the extent that autobiographical discourse produces , rather than merely reproduces , our ...
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... novel , Maurice , I attempt to provide an answer to these questions , even while calling attention to the fact - encountered frequently dur- ing the research involved in writing this volume - that 18 { Introduction }
... novel , Maurice , I attempt to provide an answer to these questions , even while calling attention to the fact - encountered frequently dur- ing the research involved in writing this volume - that 18 { Introduction }
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?