Secret Selves: Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian AutobiographyFocusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers readings of works by influential figures in late-19th-century literature and culture. Combining research, historical analysis, and contemporary theories of autobiography, gender and sexual identity, he provides studies of confessional narratives by Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and, in an epilogue, E.M. Forster. |
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... disclosure , and each narrative reveals ambivalence about the risks and exposure encountered by the self that seeks to " confess . " Though the thematic context for this autobiographical tension between secrecy and disclosure is that of ...
... disclosure , and each narrative reveals ambivalence about the risks and exposure encountered by the self that seeks to " confess . " Though the thematic context for this autobiographical tension between secrecy and disclosure is that of ...
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... disclosures " can mean either that he has become less secretive or that he no longer relishes the prospect of disclosure , as he might once have done . At a later juncture in his autobiography , however , Newman sug- gests that this ...
... disclosures " can mean either that he has become less secretive or that he no longer relishes the prospect of disclosure , as he might once have done . At a later juncture in his autobiography , however , Newman sug- gests that this ...
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... disclosures . At the same time , if Symonds's disclosure of Vaughan's " story " seems merely a fortuitous association of ideas , it might also be a warning to Conington that he has already experienced and successfully resisted an ...
... disclosures . At the same time , if Symonds's disclosure of Vaughan's " story " seems merely a fortuitous association of ideas , it might also be a warning to Conington that he has already experienced and successfully resisted an ...
Contents
Defacing Oscar Wilde | 107 |
Sexual Reconstruction in E M Forsters Secret Fictions | 206 |
Notes | 219 |
Copyright | |
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