Modernizing Lives: Experiments in English Biography, 1918-1939 - Hardcover

Hoberman, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809312883 ISBN 13: 9780809312887

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

Eight distinguished English writers?Lytton Strachey, Geoffrey Scott, David Cecil, Percy Lubbock, A. J. A. Symons, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and Harold Nicolson?all wrote biographies of great influence. Hoberman suggests that it is time to re-examine these people and their contribution to biography.

 

The biographers featured in this study were vastly different writers writing about people as diverse as Queen Elizabeth and Roger Fry, but they shared a common concern: ?the reshaping of traditional biography into a more flexible, more artful form, able to accommodate modern ideas of self, of time, and of narration.” These lives, written between the wars, no longer have the ?serious,” ?joyless,” ?depressing similarity” that Virginia Woolf com­plained about in Victorian biographies.

 

Between the wars a number of discoveries, gener­al currents, personalities, and theories made tradi­tional biography seem inadequate. No longer was the compilation of letters and autobiographical frag­ments enough. Childhood became important, as did the unconscious, unwilled element in character. So­cial forces became paramount.

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Ruth Hoberman, Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, is coauthor of The McGraw-Hill Guide to World Literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809312883
• ISBN 13: 9780809312887
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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