NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIVES by Laurence S. Lockridge (Editor), John Maynard (Editor), Donald D. Stone (Editor) ( 9780521341813 )

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Title:

NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIVES

By:

Laurence S. Lockridge (Editor), John Maynard (Editor), Donald D. Stone (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521341817

ISBN 13:

9780521341813

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

27 April, 1989

Pages:

238

Description:

In Nineteenth-Century Lives, first published in 1989, ten distinguished critics and biographers consider what it means to narrate a life.

Synopsis:

In Nineteenth-Century Lives, first published in 1989, ten distinguished critics and biographers consider what it means to narrate a life. Their illustrative texts are largely taken from nineteenth-century biography, autobiography and the novel, but narrative is the broader genre that unites their various inquiries. The principal issues, theoretical and practical, are framed by Margaret Atwood, J. Hillis Miller and Phyllis Rose. 'The biographer, like the novelist, is a constructor of narratives; it's just that the ground rules are a little different,' writes Atwood. Among the matters they debate are the boundaries of fact and fiction, the professed power of the narrator, and the figurative underpinings of autobiography. But many of these essays are delightful and provocative biographical and autobiographical excursions in themselves. Atwood describes her early fear of biography, Morton Cohen narrates an exciting bit of detective work into the life of Lewis Carroll, and John Rosenberg gives a vivid and frequently revisionary reading of many aspects of Darwin's life.

Illustrations:

6 half-tones, index

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Returns:

Returnable

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