Mortal pages, literary lives : studies in nineteenth-century autobiography
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Mortal pages, literary lives : studies in nineteenth-century autobiography
（Nineteenth century series）
Scolar Press , Ashgate Pub. Co., c1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is a reassessment of the practice and theory of autobiography in the 19th century, using contemporary and more recent interpretative approaches. It deals with a range of authors, canonical and non-canonical: Romantics - Wordsworth, de Quincey and Leigh Hunt; intellectuals - Carlyle, Mill and Newman; women writers - Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Martineau and others; late threshold figures "Mark Rutherford" and Conan Doyle; and Americans Mary Chestnut and Walt Whitman. The contributors considers the autobiographical impulse, exponents and groups in their own right but also in relation to major aestetic, cultural and philosophic issues such as interextuality, gender representation, nationality, spiritual quest and the chllenge of seculatization.
Table of Contents
- Romantic self-reprentation - the example of Mary Wollstonecraft's letters in Sweden, Peter Swabb
- the shock of the old - Wordsworth and the paths to Rome, KeithHanley
- autobiography as self-indulgence - De Quincey and his reviewers, Julian North
- the romance of sickliness - Leigh Hunt's autobiography and the example of Keats, Nicholas Roe
- why do we remember forwards and not backwards?, Phillip Davis
- autobiography and the illative sense, William Myers
- displacing the autobiographical impulse - a Bakhtinian reading of Thomas Carlyle's reminiscences, David Amigoni
- Victorian women as writers and readers of (auto)biography, Joanne Shattock
- "Father's Daughters" - three Victorian anti-feminist autobiographers, Valerie Sanders
- Mark Rutherford's salvation and the case of Catharine Furze, Vincent Newey
- seconding the self - Mary Chestnut's civil war, Rosemarie Morgan
- autobiography as prophecy - Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days", Nicholas Everett
- buried in laughter - the memories and adventures of Sir Authur Conan Doyle, Diana Barsham.
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