Imitating art : essays in biography
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Imitating art : essays in biography
Pluto Press, 1993
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
'[It is a] deep and wide exploration of the poetics of reading and writing biographical narrative that deserves ... close attention. .... Truly outstanding' Biography (USA)
Table of Contents
Part One
Andrew Butcher on The Book of Margery Kemp
David Ellis on Dr Johnson's Life of Savage
Grayson Ditchfield on Morley's Gladstone
David Turley on popular images of Lincoln
A Robert Lee on James's Life of HawthornE
Part Two
Micky Sheringham on Sartre's approach to biography
Mary Evans on biography, the social sciences and women
Janet Montefiore on Syvia Townsend-Warner's biography of T.H. White
W.M.L Bell on Flaubert's Parrot
Malcolm Andrews on Ackroyd's Dickens
All contributors are at the University of Kent at Canterbury
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