Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography
Subjects:
Autobiography,
Confession In Literature,
Desire In Literature,
English Prose Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism,
Gay Men's Writings, English--History And Criticism,
Gay Men--Great Britain--Biography--History And Criticism,
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Historiography,
Homosexuality And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century,
Male Authors, English--19th Century--Biography--History And Criticism
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.