Recognizing biography /

Epstein's narrative interweaves interpretive and theoretical chapters as it emplots the discourse of English biography from Walton to Strachey. In this way familiar generic relationships between biographer, subject, life, text, falsehood, and readership are analyzed in specific (if constantly s...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Epstein, William H.
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1987.
سلاسل:Anniversary Collection.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4v31c3
جدول المحتويات:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Recognizing Biography
  • 2. Altering the Life-Text: Walton's Life of Donne
  • 3. Recognizing the Life-Text
  • 4. Patronizing the Biographical Subject: Johnson's Life of Savage
  • 5. Recognizing the Biographical Subject
  • 6. Recognizing the Biographer: Boswell's Life of Johnson
  • 7. Recognizing the Life-course: Strachey's Eminent Victorians
  • Notes
  • Index