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Maria Graham - A Literary Biography (Hardcover, New)
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Maria Graham - A Literary Biography (Hardcover, New)
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Maria Graham's story is as remarkable as her work, and this
biography not only narrates her life but also delves into the
representation she made of herself in her published and unpublished
journals, diaries, memoirs, and letters. The result of her
endeavours is a literary persona that appears far removed from the
controversial woman that she actually was. Who is the woman behind
the texts? How did she conceive them? Was she simply one of many
other adventurous and articulate female authors of the nineteenth
century, or did she for some reason stand apart? This book shows
how she manufactured her identity at times by conforming to,
challenging, or ignoring the rules of society regarding women's
behaviour. She was a child of the Enlightenment in that she valued
knowledge above all things, yet she flavoured her discoveries with
a taste of romanticism. Her search took her to distant lands where
she captured for her readers foreign cultural manifestations,
exotic landscapes, and obscure religious rites; yet a reading of
her work generates the impression that despite the dramatic
descriptions of peoples and places, Graham's subject was, simply,
herself. What we know of her story comes mainly from her own
narratives, although there are significant letters to, from, and
about her that round up the analysis. This biography reconstructs
Maria Graham's literary image by means of significant passages of
her work, memoirs, diaries, journals, and letters. The chosen texts
are meant to illustrate salient features of her style and of her
interaction with the prevalent ideologies of her time. The
intention is to display a groundbreaking female intellectual who
captured for her readers the ancientculture of India as deftly as
she represented bloodthirsty bandits in the north of Italy or
nascent countries in South America.
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