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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Tác giả chính: Buckton, Oliver S.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©1998.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807860625_buckton
Mục lục:
  • 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.