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Recognizing Biography / William H. Epstein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1987]Copyright date: ©1988Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812280814
  • 9781512801880
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820/.9492
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512801880

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

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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 shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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