Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Trev Lynn. Broughton
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (219 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Stephen's Stephens; Introduction: 'Some little employment': letters, Lives and Leslie Stephen; On the wire: Leslie Stephen, Life-writing and the art of forgetting; Missing her: the Leslie Stephens, Anny Ritchie and the sexual politics of genre; Froude's Carlyles: anatomies of a controversy; Dust-clouds and dissonances: married life as a literary problem; Froude: the 'painful appendix'; 'Revelations on ticklish topics': impotence, biography and Froude-Carlyle; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies f
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| Emner | Froude, James Anthony : (NO-TrBIB)90261306
Stephen, Leslie : (NO-TrBIB)90092319 Authors, English - Biography - History and criticism Autobiography Vis mer... Biography as a literary form
English prose literature - History and criticism English prose literature - Male authors History and criticism Great Britain - History Historiography Male authors, English - Biography History and criticism Masculinity in literature Men in literature 19th century. English prose literature - 19th century - History . Feminist literary criticism. History and criticism. 1900-tallet Engelsk litteratur English Literature English Languages & Literatures Maskulinitet Menn Selvbiografier Storbritannia Viktoriatiden |
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| ISBN | 0415082110. - 0415082129
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