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Secret selves : confession and same-sex desire in Victorian autobiography

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

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Description
x, 270 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea 1956-
  • 1800-1901
  • English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Autobiography
  • Homosexuality and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Gay men > Great Britain > Biography > Biography > History and criticism
  • Male authors, English > 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
  • Prose anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique
  • Autobiographie
  • Écrivains anglais > 19e siècle > Biographies > Histoire et critique
  • Homosexualité et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle
  • Homosexuels masculins > Angleterre > Biographies > Histoire et critique
  • Écrits d'homosexuels anglais > Histoire et critique
  • Confession dans la littérature
  • Désir dans la littérature
  • Homosexualité et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle
  • Homosexuels masculins > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies > Biographies > Histoire et critique
  • autobiography (genre)
  • Authors, English > Biography
  • Autobiography
  • Confession in literature
  • Desire in literature
  • English prose literature
  • Gay men
  • Gay men's writings, English
  • Historiography
  • Homosexuality and literature
  • Male authors, English > Biography
  • Autobiografie
  • Homosexualität
  • Schriftsteller
  • Autobiografieën
  • Engels
  • Homoseksuelen
  • Bekentenis
  • Wensen
  • Geschichte 1845-1960
  • Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Victoria, 1837-1901
  • Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Historiographie. > 1837-1901 (Vic.)
  • Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Historiographie. > 1837-1901 (Victoria)
  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • Biografie.
  • Autobiographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-259) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0807824356
  • 9780807824351
  • 080784702X
  • 9780807847022
  • 0807823996
  • 9780807823996
LCCN
97030007
OCLC
  • ocm37331679
  • 37331679
  • SCSB-14170100
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library