Nineteenth-Century Lives
- Editors:
- Laurence S. Lockridge, New York University
- John Maynard, New York University
- Donald D. Stone, City University of New York
- David Staines
- Date Published: November 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090506
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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.
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090506
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Jerome Hamilton Buckley
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Biographobia: some personal reflections on the act of biography Margaret Atwood
2. Shaping life in The Prelude Carl Woodring
3. Writing the life of J. J. Ridley Richard D. Altick
4. Charles Dickens: the lives of some important nobodies Robert Kiely
5. Mr. Darwin collects hiself John D. Rosenberg
6. Lewis Carroll: 'dishcoveries' - and more Morton N. Cohen
7. Prosopopoeia and Praeterita J. Hillis Miller
8. Patterns in time: the decorative and the narrative in the work of William Morris Norman Kelvin
9. Life's 'half-profits': writers and their readers in fiction of the 1890s Margaret Diane Stetz
10. Fact and fiction in biography Phyllis Rose
11. Jerome Hamilton Buckley: a bibliography David M. Staines
Index.
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