Life Writing and Victorian Culture

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David Amigoni
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - Broj stranica: 236
In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the relatively neglected diary, collective biography, and obituary. Reflecting the rich research being conducted in this area, the contributors link life writing to the formation of gendered and class-based identities; the politics of the Victorian family; and the broader professional, political, colonial, and literary structures in which social and kinship relations were implicated. A wide variety of Victorian works are considered, from the diary of the Radical Samuel Bamford, to the diary of the homosexual George Ives; from autobiographies of professional men to collective biographies of eminent women.
 

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Diary Autobiography and the Practice of Life History
21
Victorian Prosopographies
41
Middleclass Men and Autobiography
67
A Model of Victorian Identity Formation
87
Patronage Masculinity
105
Political Biographies
145
Biography Obits and
165
The Journals of George Ives
195
The Benson Family Autobiographies
215
Index
233
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O autoru (2006)

David Amigoni is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, where he also works on the graduate programme in Victorian Studies. He has published widely on Victorian life writing, and is editor elect of The Journal of Victorian Culture.

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