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Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and contemporary theories of autobiography, gender, and sexual identity, he provides nuanced studies of confessional narratives by Edward Carpenter, John Henry Newman, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, and, in an epilogue, E. M. Forster. By examining the confessional elements of these writings, Buckton brings secrecy into focus as a central and productive component of autobiographical discourse. He challenges the conventional view of secrecy as the suppression of information, instead using the term to suggest an oscillation between authorial self-disclosure and silence or reserve--a strategy for arousing the readers interest and establishing a relation based on shared knowledge while deferring or displacing the revelation of potentially incriminating and scandalous desires. Though theirdisclosures of same-sex desire jeopardized the cultural privilege granted these writers by Victorian codes of authorship and masculinity, their use of secrecy, Buckton shows, allowed them to protect themselves from Victorian stigma and to challenge prevailing constructions of sexual identity.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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title:Secret Selves : Confession and Same-sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography
author:Buckton, Oliver S.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807824356
print isbn13:9780807824351
ebook isbn13:9780807860625
language:English
subjectEnglish 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--His
publication date:1998
lcc:PR788.A95B83 1998eb
ddc:828/.80809492
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--His
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Secret Selves
Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography
Oliver S. Buckton
Page iv 1998 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved - photo 2
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1998
The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Designed by Richard Hendel
Set in Minion types by Tseng Information Systems
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Buckton, Oliver S.
Secret selves: confession and same-sex desire in Victorian
autobiography / Oliver S. Buckton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2435-6 (cloth: alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4702-x (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. English prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Autobiography.
3. Men authors, English19th centuryBiographyHistory and criticism.
4. Homosexuality and literatureGreat BritainHistory19th century. 5. Gay
menGreat BritainBiographyHistory and criticism. 6. Gay men's writings,
EnglishHistory and criticism. 7. Great BritainHistoryVictoria, 18371901
Historiography. 8. Confession in literature. 9. Desire in literature. I. Title.
PR788.A95B83 1998
828'.80809492dc21 97-30007
CIP
Chapter 1 appeared earlier, in somewhat different form, as "'An Unnatural State': Gender, 'Perversion,' and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua," Victorian Studies 35, no. 4 (Summer 1992): 35983, and is reprinted here with permission of the journal.
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FOR LAURICE
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction. The Self and Its Secrets
1
Chapter 1. An Unnatural State: Secrecy and "Perversion" in John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua
21
Chapter 2. The Secret Which I Carried: Desire and Displacement in John Addington Symonds's Memoirs
60
Chapter 3. Defacing Oscar Wilde
107
Chapter 4. A Double Nature: The Hidden Agenda of Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams
161
Epilogue. Strange Desires: Sexual Reconstruction in E. M. Forster's Secret Fictions
206
Notes
219
Works Cited
251
Index
261

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Acknowledgments
In working on this project over a number of years, I have benefited from the friendship, generosity, and insights of numerous individuals and institutions. It is a pleasure to be able to thank them here. I offer my apologies to those whom I may have omitted.
In the early stages this project, I was fortunate to work with Paul Sawyer and Dorothy Mermin, who served as my dissertation advisers at Cornell. Their profound knowledge of Victorian literature and culture, together with their extraordinary intellectual generosity toward a struggling graduate student, contributed substantially to the process of constructing a clear argument. Walter Cohen read my dissertation with care and attention, and I offer him thanks for sharing his insights into contemporary critical theory. Others at Cornell who offered welcome encouragement and support include Lynda Bogel, Patty Chu, Susan Duhig, Heather Findlay, Mary Jacobus, Paul McClure, Lisa Moore, Terry Rowden, Talia Schaffer, and Mark Scroggins.
My work on the manuscript has benefited from the suggestions and comments of other critics and scholars in the fields of Victorian literature and gender studies. In particular, Richard Dellamora has been an invaluable source of advice and information as I have been working toward producing the final form of a book I am happy with. Lee Edelman's work has been a model of incisive thinking and critical insight to me since I first encountered him in the classroom at Tufts. I can only hope that his influence as a teacher and thinker may be detected in these pages. Joseph Bristow provided some helpful guidance while I was working on Edward Carpenter in Sheffield. Mary Poovey offered most constructive suggestions for revision at a later stage of
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