Reflections on biography
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Reflections on biography
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-279) and index
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内容説明
Reflections on Biography, written by the author of an award-winning life of Daniel Defoe, is an invitation to turn 'biography' over in the mind as we turn an artefact in our hands. Intended for all readers of biographyDSlifelong or occasional, critical or casualDSit examines the subject from many angles, and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and the implications of those choices. Its aim is to increase the pleasure of reading biographies, to add new, enjoyable dimensions even as it increases readers' insights into the art of writing them. Among the biographies given special attention are prize-winning lives of writers, mathematical geniuses, intellectual women, the Roosevelts, and unusual marriage partners. The book is full of lively comparisons, for instance, of Keats by Walter Jackson Bate, Andrew Motion, and others, and of a century of biographies of Edith Wharton.
目次
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- The Basics
- The voice of the Biographer
- Living with the Subject
- Evidence: 'Bare Patches and Profusions'
- Perspective, Personality, and Life Shapes
- Expansions
- Feminist Pressures
- Pushing the Envelope
- British Professionals and African-American Academics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography: Biography
- Theory
- General
- Index
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