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Author | : William Matthews |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520315227 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Author | : Cassandra Falke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781604978452 |
Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of their literary imaginations. Literature by the Working Class proposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their composition and their value as individual literary works. Although social historians, reading historians, and historians of rhetoric have recognized the significance of working-class autobiography to the early nineteenth century, providing broad overviews of the genre, very little work has been done to read these works as literature. Part of this negligence arises for the style of these autobiographies. They reject notions of autonomous selfhood and linear self-creation that characterize other Romantic period autobiographical works.
Author | : Ken Russell |
Publisher | : Southbank Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Motion picture producers and directors |
ISBN | : 9781904915324 |
With a foreword by Melvyn Bragg. The updated autobiography of Britain's most controversial film director. Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of interconnected episodes: his 30s childhood in Southampton, his first sexual experience (watching Disney's Pinocchio), his schooldays at the Nautical College, Pangbourne and early careers in the Merchant Marines and the Royal Air Force. Full of marvellously funny anecdotes and fascinating insights, this is a remarkable autobiography.
Author | : Adam Smyth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2010-08-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521761727 |
Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author | : Paul Delany |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2015-08-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131737620X |
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, to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings. The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings under two main headings – ‘religious’, where the autobiographies are grouped according to the denomination of their writer, and ‘secular’, where a wide variety of writings is examined, including accounts of travel and of military and political life, as well as more personal accounts. Autobiographies by women are treated separately, and the author shows that they in general have a deeper revelation of sentiments and more subtle self-analyses than is found in comparable works by men. Sources and influences are recorded and also the essential historical details of each work. This book gives a critical analysis of the autobiographies as literary works and suggests relationships between them and the culture and society of their time. Review of the original publication: "...a contribution to cultural history which is of quite exceptional merit. Its subject is of great intrinsic interest and manifest importance and Professor Delany has treated it with exemplary thoroughness, lucidity, and intelligence." Lionel Trilling
Author | : Menotti Lerro |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443874841 |
The volume traces the founding critical theories of the autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments, which, since the Sixties and the essays of Roy Pascal and Jean Starobinski, have had a greater and greater influence. It offers – in contrast to the essential, and by now classic, definition of Philippe Lejeune – an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography, recognizing poetic writing that has the extraordinary ability to say what “the mortal language does not say,” to quote Leopardi. The works of Seamus Heaney, Thom Gunn, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma are analyzed here, and show an unveiling of the self through memories, places and objects that often characterize them and that allow, to whomever recalls one’s own experience through writing, the recovery and restoration of essential meanings to the reconstruction not only of subjective identity, but also of one’s own community.
Author | : John Burnett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adam Smyth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2016-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107078415 |
This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.
Author | : Mary K. Mannix |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2015-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838912966 |
Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author | : James R. Simmons, Jr |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2007-04-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 146040341X |
Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown’s A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd’s A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston’s “Autobiography”; and James Myles’s Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy. This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for these works. Appendices include contemporary responses to the autobiographies, debates on factory legislation, transcripts of testimony given before parliamentary committees on child labour, and excerpts from literary works on factory life by Harriet Martineau, Frances Trollope, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.