Author: William Jolly
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The life of John Duncan, with sketches of his friends [&c.].
Author: William Jolly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Life of John Duncan. Scotch Weaver and Botanist. With Sketches of His Friends and Notices of the Times
Author: William Jolly
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385351936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385351936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876
Author: New South Wales. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W. Reference Department
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Victorian Biography Reconsidered
Author: Juliette Atkinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191591432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1939, Virginia Woolf called for a more inclusive form of biography, which would include 'the failures as well as the successes, the humble as well as the illustrious'. She did so in part as a reaction against Victorian biography, deemed to have been overly preoccupied with 'Great Men'. Yet a significant number of Victorians had already broken ranks to write the lives of humble, unsuccessful, or neglected men and women. Victorian Biography Reconsidered seeks to uncover and assess this trend. The book begins with an overview of Victorian biography followed by a reflection on how the bagginess of nineteenth-century hero-worship enabled new subjects to emerge. Biographies of 'hidden' lives are then scrutinized through chapters on the lives of humble naturalists, failed destinies, minor women writers, neglected Romantic poets rescued by Victorian biographers, and, finally, the Dictionary of National Biography. In its conclusion, the book briefly discusses how Virginia Woolf absorbed earlier biographical trends before redirecting the representation of 'hidden' lives. Victorian Biography Reconsidered argues that, often paradoxically, nineteenth-century biographers regarded the public sphere with intense wariness. At a time of instability for men of letters, biographers embraced the role of mediators in a manner that asserted their own cultural authority. Frequently, they showed little interest in vouchsafing immortality for their unknown or forgotten subjects, but strove instead to provoke amongst their readers a feeling of gratitude for the hidden labour that sustained the nation and an appreciation for the writers who had brought it to their attention.
The Scottish Review
The Athenaeum
Bibliotheca Botanica
Author: Wesley, Wm. & Son
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description