David Amigoni

Victorian Biography

Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book contends that biography is a key genre for understanding debates between 19th-century intellectuals about the circulation and use of "literary" and "historical" discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780745007717
• ISBN-10: 0745007716
• Artikelnr.: 24335129

Autorenporträt

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Historic rising academic disciplines 2. Biography and the ordering of
discourse 3. Re-reading the rhetohcal hero in Carlylean biography 4. The
Comtean ordering of discourse 5. Biographies of statesmen and the
epistemology of positive political history 6. Limiting the literary -
biography and the construction of a fellowship of discourse 7. Custodians
of discourse