Mapping Lives - The Uses of Biography (Paperback, New ed)

Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers, thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture and society. In the last century, it has been a controversial subject, as old models of biographical writing were attacked and superseded, while critics and theorists questioned the once self-evident value of the biography of writers. Yet the genre continues to attract notable authors and is unfailingly popular with readers.
The present volume, while containing essays by practicing biographers, is intended primarily as a stimulus to critical thinking. It focuses on the diverse functions assumed by life-writing in different European countries at different periods, challenging both the notion of a genre with constant characteristics and aims and the view of modern biography as the happy culmination of centuries of progress.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	British Academy Centenary Monographs
Release date:	September 2004
First published:	December 2004
Editors:	Peter France • William St.Clair
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	360
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-726318-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
LSN:	0-19-726318-6
Barcode:	9780197263181

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