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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