Secret selves : confession and same-sex desire in Victorian autobiography /
Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by such influential 19th-century writers as Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, and, in an epilogue, E.M. Forster, and reveals the...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
©1998.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807860625_buckton |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Self and Its Secrets
- Ch. 1. An Unnatural State: Secrecy and "Perversion" in John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua
- Ch. 2. The Secret Which I Carried: Desire and Displacement in John Addington Symonds's Memoirs
- Ch. 3. Defacing Oscar Wilde
- Ch. 4. A Double Nature: The Hidden Agenda of Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams
- Epilogue: Strange Desires: Sexual Reconstruction in E.M. Forster's Secret Fictions.