Laura Marcus

Auto/biographical discourses

Criticism, theory, practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780719055300
• ISBN-10: 071905530X
• Artikelnr.: 22168228

Autorenporträt

Laura Marcus is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical
discourses 2. Auto/biography: between literature and science 3. Bringing
the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new
biography' 4. Autobiography and historical consciousness 5. Saving the
subject 6. The law of genre 7. Auto/biographical spaces Bibliography Index