Portraits From Life - Modernist Novelists and Autobiography

In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their memoirs and autobiographies.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: 'The Secret of My Life': Joseph Conrad


• 2: 'A Straight Dive into the Past': Henry James


• 3: 'For Facts a Most Profound Contempt': Ford Madox Ford


• 4: 'The Life Apart': Edith Wharton


• 5: 'Alive and Kicking': H.G. Wells


• 6: 'You are Never Yourself to Yourself': Gertrude Stein


• 7: 'My Life Being So Difficult a One to Live': Wyndham Lewis


• Epilogue

About the author

Jerome Boyd Maunsell is a writer and critic based in London. His first book was a short biography of Susan Sontag, published by Reaktion in 2014, and his essays have also appeared, among other publications, in frieze and the Times Literary Supplement. He received his BA from St Catherine's College, Oxford, his MA from UCL, and his PhD from King's College London. He was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Kingston University, London.

Summary

In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist writers - Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton - depicted themselves in their memoirs and autobiographies.

Additional text

A unique angle of approach.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Boyd Maunsell, Jerome Boyd Maunsell, Maunsell Jerome Boyd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780198789369
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878936-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs