This is a reassessment of the practice and theory of autobiography in the 19th century, using contemporary and more recent interpretative approaches. It deals with a range of authors, canonical and non-canonical: Romantics - Wordsworth, de Quincey and Leigh Hunt; intellectuals - Carlyle, Mill and Newman; women writers - Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Martineau and others; late threshold figures Mark Rutherford and Conan Doyle; and Americans Mary Chestnut and Walt Whitman.
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This is a reassessment of the practice and theory of autobiography in the 19th century, using contemporary and more recent interpretative approaches. It deals with a range of authors, canonical and non-canonical: Romantics - Wordsworth, de Quincey and Leigh Hunt; intellectuals - Carlyle, Mill and Newman; women writers - Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Martineau and others; late threshold figures Mark Rutherford and Conan Doyle; and Americans Mary Chestnut and Walt Whitman.
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Add this copy of Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in Nineteenth to cart. $14.38, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Scolar Press.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 9781859282069.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the top edge of the pages and the end pages are foxed. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is also lightly foxed and shows some edgewear. 259pp.
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