Keepers of the flame : literary estates and the rise of biography

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Keepers of the flame : literary estates and the rise of biography

Ian Hamilton

Pimlico, 1993

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First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson 1992

Includes index

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Description

Charts the course of literary biography from Donne and Shakespeare to Plath and Larkin. In a series of case-studies, Hamilton provides a history of battles, broken promises, mismanaged wills, conflicting reputations, of scholars and crooks, and of muddle, trickery, scandal and vendetta.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB31458387
  • ISBN
    • 0712659706
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 344 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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