Reflections on Biography (1st edition hardback in good dust jacket)

Backscheider, Paula R.

ISBN 10: 019818641X / ISBN 13: 9780198186410

Edité par Oxford University Press, 1999

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Published by Oxford University Press in 1999, here is the first hardback printing of Paula R. Backscheider's REFLECTIONS ON BIOGRAPHY. Black cloth binding, gilt spine lettering, 289 pages, illustrations, the book is in good condition with some smoky and dusty staining to the top of the page edges and a damaged stamp to the full title page. The dust jacket is good to very good.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Reflections on Biography (1st edition hardback in good dust jacket)
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 019818641X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198186410
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Synopsis

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.