Mortal Pages, Literary Lives
Subtitle: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography (Nineteenth Century)
Contributors: Vincent Newey (Editor); Philip Shaw (Editor)
Publisher: Scolar Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781859282069
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Authors, English; 19th Century American Prose; 19th Century English Prose; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Biography; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; 19th century; American prose literature; Authors, American; History and criticism
Description: This volume offers an innovative reassessment of the practice and theory of autobiography in the nineteenth century, calling upon both contemporary and more recent interpretative approaches. One question that emerges is how far autobiography exists as a separate genre, and how far it is a necessary and ubiquitous impulse. Beyond this is the larger debate as to whether autobiographical texts express a prior essence or whether they are the site of continual acts of self-fashioning.