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Auto/biographical discourses

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In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide reader...
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In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 19 November 1998
ISBN: 9780719055300
Format: Paperback
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory
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Laura Marcus is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London

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