Articles liés à Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century - Couverture souple

Livre 9 sur 11: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
 
9781684482269: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1684482267 ISBN 13 : 9781684482269
Editeur : Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2020

Synopsis

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D'Arblay's son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney's realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l'auteur

TANYA CALDWELL is a professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Time to Begin Anew: Dryden's Georgics and Aeneis (Bucknell University Press) and Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority, and editor of Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. She is working on a biography of Hannah Cowley.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1684482267
ISBN 13 
9781684482269
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
250
Éditeur
Caldwell Tanya M.
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible