Victorian Biography Reconsidered - A Study of Nineteenth-century 'hidden' Lives

Zusatztext The force of Juliette Atkinson's quietly revolutionary study ... lies in its demonstration that the Victorians were in fact intensely interested in neglected lives. Informationen zum Autor Juliette Atkinson completed her education at the University of Oxford and University College London. She was awarded her PhD in February 2008, and in May 2009 accepted a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her current research focuses on Anglo-French literary relations in the fin-de-siècle. Klappentext Through an examination of numerous biographies, from the lives of working-class scientists to minor women writers, Victorian Biography Reconsidered examines how and why nineteenth-century biographers challenged the contemporary obsession with 'Great Men' and brought to public attention the lives of neglected or unknown men and women. Zusammenfassung Through an examination of numerous biographies, from the lives of working-class scientists to minor women writers, Victorian Biography Reconsidered examines how and why nineteenth-century biographers challenged the contemporary obsession with 'Great Men' and brought to public attention the lives of neglected or unknown men and women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Many Faces of Victorian Biography 2: Victorian Hero-Worship 3: 'The simple annals of the poor': Biographies of Humble Men 4: 'Tragic failures' and 'happy mediocrity': Biographies of Unsuccessful Men 5: 'Quiet and uneventful'?: Female Literary Biography 6: 'Inheritors of unfulfill'd renown': Championing Romantic Poets 7: 'Forgotten Benefactors': the Dictionary of National Biography Conclusion: 'The Lives of the Obscure' and Virginia Woolf Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Juliette Atkinson, Juliette (British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Atkinson, Atkinson Juliette
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2010
• EAN: 9780199572137
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957213-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900