| Título: | My Secret Life and the Sexual Economy of Fin-de-Siècle England |
| Autores: |
Marcus Keith Harmes; University of Southern Queensland Barbara Harmes; University of Southern Queensland |
| Fecha: | 2013-01-28 |
| Publicador: | Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: | peer-reviewed article |
| Tema: | My Secret Life; ‘Walter’; Fin de Siècle; Perversion; Surveillance; Sexuality; Spermatic Economy; Prostitution |
| Descripción: | This paper proposes that the volumes of My Secret Life reveal an explicit linkage and juxtaposition of the respectable and perverse which was at the heart of fin-de-siècle British culture. In particular this paper reads ‘Walter’s’ text as a parody of materialism that terminates in fin-de-siècle ‘exhaustion’ and decline - ‘free-enterprise’ itself beyond control. Confession opens a site for resistance and subversion, ‘Walter’s’ text legitimating deviance and rejecting ideas of the thrift of sperm which characterized the discursive controls of the late-nineteenth century. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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