Télécharger le livre :  William Hayley

This volume of essays reassesses William Hayley’s contribution to the literary and artistic history of the long eighteenth century and situates his work and influence in a broader cultural and, specifically, life writing context. In his biographies of Milton,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-04-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Text and Image in Women's Life Writing

This book examines the relationship between words and images in various life-writing works produced by nineteenth to twenty-first century American and British women. It addresses the politics of images in women’s life writing, contending that the presence or absence of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditionally tied to the human perspective and thus anthropocentric qua definition, can provide adequate perspectives for an age...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-01-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives

This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  After Ancient Biography

Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-25
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  New Forms of Self-Narration

This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism. It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Metabiography

This book explores the contradictions of biography. It charts shifting approaches to the writing and reading of biographies, from post-hagiographical attitudes of the Enlightenment, heroic biographies of Romanticism and irreverent modernist portraits through...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-09
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Women's Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe

This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-10-15
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Autofiction in English

This innovative volume establishes autofiction as a new and dynamic area of theoretical research in English. Since the term was coined by Serge Doubrovsky, autofiction has become established as a recognizable genre within the French literary pantheon. Yet unlike other...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-06-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Memories from the Frontline

This book analyses soldiers’ memoirs from the Great War of 1914-18 from Britain, France and Germany.   It considers both the authors’ composition of the memoirs and the public response to them. It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Girls, Autobiography, Media

This book investigates how girls’ automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.In thinking...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-05
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Food and Masculinity in Contemporary Autobiographies

This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. It concentrates on how food has transformed autobiographical narratives and how these define the ways men eat and cook nowadays. After presenting a historical overview of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-12
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Experiments in Life-Writing

This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-24
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre :  Incognito Social Investigation in British Literature

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing their authors’ experiences whilst pretending to be poor.  The most famous example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a vast...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-05-08
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
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