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The art of literary biography

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Batchelor, John, Contributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Authors, English.
English prose literature--Theory, etc--History and criticism.
English prose literature.
Authors--Biography--Authorship.
Authors.
Biography as a literary form.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 289 p., [8] p.) : ports.
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Art of Literary Biography, The
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1995.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Is literary biography widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for "reputable" intellectual reasons? Leading critics and professional biographers here attempt to answer this and other questions by examining the biographies of such authors as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and others.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-280-76527-5
OCLC:
1027201685

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