Oliver S. Buckton is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
"In this major new study, Oliver Buckton widens the range of
canonical works within Victorian autobiography by making a
convincing case for the importance of John Addington Symond's
"Memoirs" and Edward Carpenter's "My Days and Dreams" in addition
to more familiar titles such as Newman's "Apologia pro Vita Sua"
and Wilde's "De Profundis". Buckton demonstrates the special
importance of this genre in the social construction of modern
homosexuality and the fact that desire between men is a much more
varied phenomenon, more closely tied to particular rhetorical
strategies than is usually taken to be the case. This book will
change the course of both Victorian and gay studies."--Richard
Dellamora, author of "Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of
Victorian Aestheticism"
"Buckton [has a] welcome ability to merge theoretical dexterity and
attentive studies of texts in his own highly readable
narrative."--"Victorian Literature and Culture"
"Dense and closely argued . . . opens a new door in both Victorian
and autobiographical studies."--"South Central Review"
"In an extremely readable and well-written study, Buckton provides
original readings of the relationship between secrecy and
autobiography in major Victorian works. "Secret Selves" is
historically informed and compelling. It will break new ground in
the area of Victorian autobiography."--Mary Poovey, New York
University
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