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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.

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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
      Published 11/19/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719055300
      978-0719055300
      ISBN-10 071905530X

      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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