Biography & Autobiography

Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered here. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his ideas today. The six chapters are organised biographically and cover all aspec..

Students new to the work of William Morris will find the full range of his achievements covered here. The author has carefully placed Morris in the context of the Victorian age, but has also suggested the relevance of his ideas today. The six chapters are organised biographically and cover all aspec..

Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This volume brings together essays by scholars from diverse national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary backgrounds to trace these transnational motifs in life writing across the Americas..

This book brings together scholars from disparate regions, cultural perspectives, linguistic frameworks, and disciplinary backgrounds to explore what connects narrated lives in the Americas. It was published as a special issue of a|b: Auto|Biography Studies...

Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study first approaches the problem of autobiography by assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; then through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings...

This book examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini explores the tension in these texts between historicity and the desire to free the subject from historical necessity. Authors studied include Malouf, Carey, Ondaatje, Adair, Banti, and Montalbán...

This book examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini explores the tension in these texts between historicity and the desire to free the subject from historical necessity. Authors studied include Malouf, Carey, Ondaatje, Adair, Banti, and Montalbán...

Originally published in 1981. This book looks at the autobiographical work of nine twentieth-century writers – Henry Adams, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, Boris Pasternak, Leiris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Green and Adrian Stokes...

Biofiction, literature that names its protagonist after a historical figure, has become a dominant literary form in the last forty years. Although writers such as J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín, and Russell Banks have authored award-winning biographical novels, there rem..

This volume explores narratives of illness and disability using the latest critical theories and through the perspectives of patients, creative writers, and academics. It examines the intersection of trauma and disability and the ethical dimensions of narrative. It was first published as a special i..

Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which togethe..

Originally published in 1960. This book outlines a definition of the form of autobiography and traces its historical origins and development, analyses its ‘truth’ and talks about what sort of self-knowledge it investigates...