| 书目名称 | The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds |
| 副标题 | A Critical Edition |
| 编辑 | Amber K. Regis |
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| 概述 | Reproduces the full text of John Addington Symonds’s Memoirs for the first time.Uncovers the manuscript’s fascinating history from Symonds’s death to its first publication.Reveals the emendations and |
| 丛书名称 | Genders and Sexualities in History |
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| 描述 | 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 manuscriptsurvives 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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2016 |
| 关键词 | Autobiography; Sexuality; Homosexuality; Victorians; Nineteenth century |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-95372-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-29124-0Series ISSN 2730-9479 Series E-ISSN 2730-9487 |
| issn_series | 2730-9479 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |
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