Men of letters, writing lives : masculinity and literary auto/biography in the late-Victorian period /
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| Author / Creator: | Broughton, Trev Lynn, 1959- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. |
| Description: | x, 213 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3611866 |
| Summary: | Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators.<br> This study focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903: the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 213 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415082110 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415082129 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
