eBooks - Education - Literary Studies - Trev Lynn Broughton - Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Men of Letters, Writing Lives eBook
by Trev Lynn Broughton
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Men of Letters, Writing Lives Summary
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In this fascinating new study Trev 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. She focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903, * the auto/biographical theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen, one of the century's most revered exponents of the written life. * the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle The author looks at the proliferation of professions with a vested interest in the 'written life'; the speeding-up and institutionalisation of the Life-and-Letters industry; the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. She argues that these elements all contributed to a new 'auto/biographical' subjectivity. Men of Letters, Writing Lives will be of great interest to students and scholars of literature, cultural history, gender and auto/biography. |
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