Auto/Biographical Discourses - Criticism, Theory, Practice (Paperback, New Ed)

In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction--debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as a magical instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of "genius;" the "new biography" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiography and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life-writing.

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1998
First published:	1994
Authors:	Laura Marcus
Dimensions:	217 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	322
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-5530-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	0-7190-5530-X
Barcode:	9780719055300

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