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Recovering Ruth : a biographer's tale / Robert Root.
LIBRA CT21 .R65 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Root, Robert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Root, Robert L.
- Douglass, Ruth, 1824-1850.
- Douglass, Ruth.
- Biography as a literary form--Case studies.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Biographers--United States.
- Biographers.
- Women pioneers--Michigan--Isle Royale--Diaries.
- Women pioneers.
- Michigan--Isle Royale.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as Robert Root assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, he became enmeshed in unexpected ways. When doubts arose about who really wrote the journal, Root found himself plunged into a mystery of lost identity, drawn ever deeper into the drama and complexity of forgotten lives, and engaged in a quest at times both compulsive and quixotic. Part memoir, part meditation on the nature of biography, Recovering Ruth is the absorbing story of recovering a hidden past -- and of learning firsthand the complications of intimacy that develop between a biographer and his subject.
- Contents:
- A Naive Form of Love and Identification 1
- Conjecturing a Life 23
- Something of a Back Woods Life 39
- A Journal of Our Migrations 64
- The Wind of Circumstances 95
- Banished to a Desolate Island 118
- The Fleetness of Time 156
- Family Charts 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-189).
- ISBN:
- 0803289928
- OCLC:
- 50333770
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