Biography & Autobiography

First published in 1977, this concise and insightful study of the life and works of Thomas Hardy provides a thorough examination of Hardy's literary output. Alongside a brief biography of Hardy's life, Professor Page's study also spotlights his major and minor novels, his short stories, his non-fict..

First published in 1977, this concise and insightful study of the life and works of Thomas Hardy provides a thorough examination of Hardy's literary output. Alongside a brief biography of Hardy's life, Professor Page's study also spotlights his major and minor novels, his short stories, his non-fict..

This theoretically challenging volume of essays describes the diversity of forms that life writing takes and highlights the extent to which autobiographical narrative is a powerful symbolic form and a genre of identity construction...

Drawing upon post-structural, particularly Lacanian, psychoanalytic theory, the author examines the relationship between cultural displacement and autobiography and postmodernism and postcolonialism.Originally published in 1995...

Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories, and the book closes with reflections and poems by contemporary life writers. It was originally publi..

War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing—memoir, biography, letters, diaries—buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight chapters in this book, covering a range of genres, and s..