Writing Lives: Literary Biography
Writing Lives: Literary Biography
- ISBN 13:
9780521732314
- ISBN 10:
052173231X
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/31/2014
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Writing Lives takes as its focus life-writing, both autobiography and biography, discussing these genres specifically within the contexts of the lives and literary careers of writers, past and present. In addition to exploring the key characteristics of life-writing, the book also examines the relationship between the lives of authors and the influence of these lives both on their own writing and on the reception of their work by contemporary and later readers. The book traces the origins of literary biography from its early roots to its position as a best-selling genre in its own right and asks to what extent the reader can trust biography and autobiography. Includes extracts from, and discussion of, a range of authors including Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dickens, Virginia Woolf and Ian McEwan.