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 109
... sense of Wilde as an aberration has outlasted the context that produced it . And this sense has continued to inform readings of his work that foreground its cul- tural and sexual difference rather than its continuity with Victorian ...
... sense of Wilde as an aberration has outlasted the context that produced it . And this sense has continued to inform readings of his work that foreground its cul- tural and sexual difference rather than its continuity with Victorian ...
Page 181
... sense to me of inevitableness in it all , and of being borne along , which gave me good courage , notwithstanding occasional natural doubts ; and a sense too of unspeakable relief and deliverance , after all those long years of ...
... sense to me of inevitableness in it all , and of being borne along , which gave me good courage , notwithstanding occasional natural doubts ; and a sense too of unspeakable relief and deliverance , after all those long years of ...
Page 202
... sense and tact than he . " " 9 Merrill was apparently valued by Carpenter precisely because his lack of " education in the mod- ern sense " made him immune to " civilization " ; education and books , Carpenter implies , would have ...
... sense and tact than he . " " 9 Merrill was apparently valued by Carpenter precisely because his lack of " education in the mod- ern sense " made him immune to " civilization " ; education and books , Carpenter implies , would have ...
Contents
Defacing Oscar Wilde | 107 |
Sexual Reconstruction in E M Forsters Secret Fictions | 206 |
Notes | 219 |
Copyright | |
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