Acknowledgments
Preface: “Only, my secret’s mine, and I won’t tell”
An Erotic Note
A Queer Note
Introduction: Adolescent Reverie
Reduplicative Desires
“In Which the Story Pauses a Little”
Sapphic Narcissa
Collecting Loss
Postscript
List of Illustrations
Notes
Works Cited
Index 211
Carol Mavor is Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Pleasures Taken: Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, also published by Duke University Press.
"To those accustomed to the detached tone of the academic monograph, Carol Mavor's stance in Becoming will seem daring. From the effusive acknowledgements onwards, the author thrusts herself to the front, so that her particular appreciation of what she studies becomes both subject and critical method."--Lindsay Duguid, TLS, October 15, 1999 "The author's perspectives on Victorian and contemporary issues of intimacy, up new perspectives for the reader, who thus feels inspired to stop and dream for a while, hoping to do so as acutely and as inventively as Mavor does." -Joseph Litvak, author of Strange Gourmets: Theory, Sophistication, and the Novel
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