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This work explores the significance of the genre of autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private - debates now figured in feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical discourses
2. Auto/biography: between literature and science
3. Bringing the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new biography'
4. Autobiography and historical consciousness
5. Saving the subject
6. The law of genre
7. Auto/biographical spaces
Bibliography
Index

Autobiographical discourses

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 11/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719055300, 978-0719055300
    ISBN10: 071905530X
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary theory Literature: history and criticism

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This work explores the significance of the genre of autobiography. Drawing on a range of writings, both literary and theoretical the text shows how biography and autobiography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private - debates now figured in feminist theory.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical discourses
    2. Auto/biography: between literature and science
    3. Bringing the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new biography'
    4. Autobiography and historical consciousness
    5. Saving the subject
    6. The law of genre
    7. Auto/biographical spaces
    Bibliography
    Index

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