Auto/biographical discourses : theory, criticism, practice
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Auto/biographical discourses : theory, criticism, practice
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. [297]-316
Includes index
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ISBN 9780719036422
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In this study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in 19th- and 20th-century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction - debates now refigured in feminist theory. The study explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius", the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others, autobiography and historical consciousness from Wilhelm Dilthey to the present, recent theories of subjectivity and genre and contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life-writing.
Table of Contents
- Identify the form - 19th-century auto/biographical discourses
- auto/biography - between literature and science
- bringing the corpse to life - Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the "new biography"
- autobiography and historical conciousness
- saving the subject
- the law of genre
- autobiographical spaces.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719055300
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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. -- .
Table of Contents
- 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 -- .
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