Biography: A Very Short Introduction 978-0-19-953354-1, 0199533547
From the Publisher: Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of
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English Pages 170 Year 2009
Table of contents :
Content: Acknowledgements --
Poetry extract acknowledgments --
List of illustrations --
Very short introduction --
1: Biography channel --
2: Exemplary lives --
3: Warts and all --
4: National biography --
5: Fallen idols --
6: Against biography --
7: Public roles --
8: Telling the story --
References --
Bibliography --
Index.
