MEN OF LETTERS, WRITING LIVES by Trev Lynn Broughton ( 9780415082129 )

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MEN OF LETTERS, WRITING LIVES

By:

Trev Lynn Broughton

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0415082129

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Pub. date:

3 December, 1998

Pages:

224

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Looks at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, asking what can be learned from the limits of male literary authority. Focuses on 2 case studies: Sir Leslie Stephens and James Anthony Goude's account of the Carlyle marriage.

Synopsis:

Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903: the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

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1 black & white tables

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Routledge

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MEN OF LETTERS, WRITING LIVES