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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Page 147
... letter . ... Moreover , De Profundis is self - evidently an address to an absent person . Indeed , Bosie is not only absent but also voiceless , for Wilde begins his letter by reproaching Bosie for his long silence : " After long and ...
... letter . ... Moreover , De Profundis is self - evidently an address to an absent person . Indeed , Bosie is not only absent but also voiceless , for Wilde begins his letter by reproaching Bosie for his long silence : " After long and ...
Page 154
... letters . Wilde links these textual misdemeanors at the beginning of his letter , writing that " you yourself will , I think , feel in your heart that to write to me as I lie in the loneliness of prison - life is better than to publish ...
... letters . Wilde links these textual misdemeanors at the beginning of his letter , writing that " you yourself will , I think , feel in your heart that to write to me as I lie in the loneliness of prison - life is better than to publish ...
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... letter is a celebration of the power of secrecy to free desire from the irritating or tragic incursions of public scrutiny . Though Wilde's letter denounces Bosie as the " other " from which the confessional subject must establish a ...
... letter is a celebration of the power of secrecy to free desire from the irritating or tragic incursions of public scrutiny . Though Wilde's letter denounces Bosie as the " other " from which the confessional subject must establish a ...
Contents
Defacing Oscar Wilde | 107 |
Sexual Reconstruction in E M Forsters Secret Fictions | 206 |
Notes | 219 |
Copyright | |
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