Writing Lives Together (eBook, PDF)

Romantic and Victorian auto/biography
Redaktion: James, Felicity; North, Julian

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Produktbeschreibung

Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories, and the book closes with reflections and poems by contemporary life writers. It was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351393072
• Artikelnr.: 49364873

Autorenporträt

Felicity James is Associate Professor in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She works on sociability, friendship and creative exchange amongst writers and communities, with a specific interest in the literature and networks of religious Dissent, and Charles and Mary Lamb. Julian North is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She specialises in Romantic and Victorian life writing and has a particular interest in literary biography, the construction of authorship, and the literary portrait.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian
Auto/biography 1. Coherence and Inclusion in the Life Writing of
Romantic-period London 2. Intertextual Sociability in Victorian Lives of
the Romantic Poets: Thomas De Quincey's 'Lake Reminiscences' and Edward
John Trelawny's Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron 3.
Josephine Butler's Serial Auto/biography: Writing the Changing Self through
the Lives of Others 4. Writing the Lives of Dissent: Life Writing, Religion
and Community from Edmund Calamy to Elizabeth Gaskell 5. Life Writing by
the Gosse Family: Family Portraits in Scientific, Evangelical and
Auto/biographical Discourses 6. The Diaries of Mary Seton Watts
(1849-1938): A Record of Her Conjugal Creative Partnership with 'England's
Michelangelo', George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) 7. Janet Ross's
Intergenerational Life Writing: Female Intellectual Legacy through Memoirs,
Correspondence, and Reminiscences