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Author Buckton, Oliver S

Title Secret selves : confession and same-sex desire in Victorian autobiography / Oliver S. Buckton
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998

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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
Summary 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 "confessional" elements of their writings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index
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SUBJECT Englisch, ... gnd
Subject English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Autobiography.
Male authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- History and criticism
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism
Gay men's writings, English -- History and criticism
Confession in literature.
Desire in literature.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- History and criticism
Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
Gay men -- England -- Biography -- History and criticism
Autobiographies as Topic
autobiography (genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
Gay men
Autobiography
Confession in literature
Desire in literature
English prose literature
Gay men -- Biography
Gay men's writings, English
Historiography
Homosexuality and literature
Male authors, English -- Biography
Authors, English -- Biography
Autobiografieën.
Engels.
Homoseksuelen.
Bekentenis.
Wensen.
Autobiografie
Homosexualität
Schriftsteller
Geschichte 1845-1960.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Historiography
Subject England
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Genre/Form Autobiography
Autobiographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97030007
ISBN 080786062X
9780807860625
9780807837924
080783792X