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Nineteenth-Century Lives (Paperback)
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Nineteenth-Century Lives (Paperback)
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In this unique collection of essays, ten distinguished critics and
biographers consider what it means to narrate a life. Their
illustrative texts are largely taken from nineteenth-century
biography, autobiography, and the novel, but narrative is the
broader genre that unites their various inquiries. The principal
issues are framed by Margaret Atwood, J. Hillis Miller, and Phyllis
Rose. Atwood compares and contrasts the biographer and the novelist
as creators of narratives, emphasizing that the difference is in
the "ground rules." Determining what these ground rules are is a
recurring theme in these essays. Some of the subjects discussed are
the boundaries of fact and fiction, the professed power of the
narrator, and the figurative underpinnings of autobiography. Many
of these pieces are delightful and provocative biographical and
autobiographical excursions in themselves. Atwood describes her
early fear of biography, Morton Cohen narrates an exciting bit of
detective work he conducted into the life of Lewis Carroll, and
John Rosenberg gives a vivid and frequently revisionary reading of
many aspects of Darwin's life. Other critics--Carl Woodring,
Richard Altick, Norman Kelvin, Margaret Stetz and Robert
Kiely--consider related topics. The contributors, as well as the
editors, have all been colleagues or students of the eminent critic
and biographer, Jerome Hamilton Buckley, in whose honor these
essays have been written.
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