Mortal Pages, Literary Lives: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Autobiography

This is a reassessment of the practice and theory of autobiography in the 19th century, using contemporary and more recent interpretative approaches. It deals with a range of authors, canonical and non-canonical: Romantics - Wordsworth, de Quincey and Leigh Hunt; intellectuals - Carlyle, Mill and Newman; women writers - Wollstonecraft, Eliot, Martineau and others; late threshold figures Mark Rutherford and Conan Doyle; and Americans Mary Chestnut and Walt Whitman.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859282067
• ISBN13: 9781859282069
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Scolar Pr
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"