The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
A Critical Edition
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2018
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95372-1 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95372-1 (ISBN)
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 care of the London Library.
Amber K. Regis is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published essays and reviews in Life Writing, Journal of Victorian Culture, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Genders and Sexualities in History |
Zusatzinfo | 6 Illustrations, color; 6 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 587 p. 12 illus., 6 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | Autobiography • Homosexuality • Nineteenth century • Sexuality • victorians |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-95372-5 / 1349953725 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-95372-1 / 9781349953721 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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