| Description |
xiv, 486 ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Structuring the criticism -- pt. 1. Traditional figures: Augustinian figures -- Spiritual figures -- Romantic figures -- pt. 2. Figures of the prophets: Carlyle's Sartor: the open secret -- Mill's Autobiography: two deities -- Newman's Apologia: alone with God -- Ruskin's Praeteria: the enclosed garden -- pt. 3. Fictions of autobiographical fiction: David Copperfield: experiments in autobiography -- Villette: pilgrim of the imagination -- Mill on the Floss: conversion to tragedy -- Way of all flesh: disfiguring the figures -- Turning figures -- pt. 4. Lifelong autobiography: Autobiography of William Yeats Butler: perfection of the life -- Memoirs of George Sherston: Sassoon's perpetual pilgrimage -- Mirror in my house: a lion among the Christians -- Muir's Autobiography: twice more in Eden -- pt. 5. Modern autobiographical fiction: Sons and lovers: a prophet in the making -- A portrait of the artist: the conventions convened -- Pilgrimage: the eternal autobiographical moment -- "To return to St. Ives": Woolf's autobiographical writings -- Envoi: life as narrative. |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Subject |
Autobiographical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Autobiographical fiction, English. |
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects.
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Authorship -- Psychological aspects. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Biography.
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Figures of speech.
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Figures of speech. |
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Prose anglaise -- Histoire et critique. |
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Autobiographie. |
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Roman autobiographique. |
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Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. |
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Figures de rhétorique. |
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Angleterre -- Biographies -- Histoire. |
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Autobiografieën. |
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Engels. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0520046668 |
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9780520046665 |
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