Beschreibung:
In Nineteenth-Century Lives, first published in 1989, ten distinguished critics and biographers consider what it means to narrate a life.
Jerome Hamilton Buckley; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Biographobia: some personal reflections on the act of biography Margaret Atwood; 2. Shaping life in The Prelude Carl Woodring; 3. Writing the life of J. J. Ridley Richard D. Altick; 4. Charles Dickens: the lives of some important nobodies Robert Kiely; 5. Mr. Darwin collects hiself John D. Rosenberg; 6. Lewis Carroll: 'dishcoveries' - and more Morton N. Cohen; 7. Prosopopoeia and Praeterita J. Hillis Miller; 8. Patterns in time: the decorative and the narrative in the work of William Morris Norman Kelvin; 9. Life's 'half-profits': writers and their readers in fiction of the 1890s Margaret Diane Stetz; 10. Fact and fiction in biography Phyllis Rose; 11. Jerome Hamilton Buckley: a bibliography David M. Staines; Index.