The memoirs of John Addington Symonds : a critical edition

• 其他作者：
  • Regis, Amber K., editor.
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• 其他題名：
  • Genders and sexualities in history.
• 出版： London : Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Genders and sexualities in history
• 主題： Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. , Authors, English--19th century--Biography. , Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain. , History. , History of Britain and Ireland. , Nineteenth-Century Literature. , History of Modern Europe. , Literary History. , Gender Studies.
• ISBN： 9781137291240 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137291233 (paper)
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Notes on the Text -- The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds -- Appendix 1: Miscellaneous papers bound with the Memoirs manuscript -- Appendix 2: Letters bound with Chapter 16 -- Appendix 3: Rewritten pages (MS 517a-b) -- Index.
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• 摘要註: This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his Memoirs in 1889. It was, he confessed, 'a foolish thing to do.' Symonds was a respected man of letters, an historian, translator, essayist and poet; he was also married with children. But rather than unfold a simple tale of public and private achievement, the Memoirs record his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with these professional and familial identities. His autobiography offers a confessional account of relationships beyond the accepted bounds of nineteenth-century social mores, presenting an alternative case study that contests the legal and medical authorities that would label his desires a crime or disease. Yet being so eloquent on matters of heterodox sexuality, the Memoirs were suppressed. The manuscript survives because Symonds recognised its import, however 'foolish': he instructed his literary executor to preserve the text, a duty ultimately discharged by placing the manuscript under embargo in the care of the London Library.
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