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Secret Selves : Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography by Oliver S. Buckton is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Secret Selves : Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography about?
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.
Who reads Secret Selves : Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Oliver S. Buckton
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807847022
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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