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- catalog abstract "Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these autobiographies intertextually and as a historically defined genre that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as a referential art. The plots of Victorian autobiographies are highly variable in terms of developing motifs and tropes. Autobiographers undergo spiritual and mental crises, live out Romantic and biblical myths, follow historical and scientific paradigms and the dynamic patterns of their own ideas. Nevertheless, underlying this diversity are profound structural similarities in plots of self-development and the implied relationships between self and public works and ideas. In the course of discussing eleven Victorian autobiographies in chronological order, Machann suggests many formal and conventional continuities among them. The eleven autobiographies include those of John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, John Ruskin, and Charles Darwin, among other luminaries of the Victorian era. Juxtaposing well-known works with less familiar ones, Machann helps the reader to explore the boundaries of the genre, appreciate stylistic variations, and identify profound structural similarities, all of which result from the larger Victorian culture. The book will be of interest to students of the Victorian era as well as scholars of life-writing and historical constructions of the self.".
- catalog contributor b7621416.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Historiography.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) -- 2. John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (1873) -- 3. Robert Dale Owen, Threading My Way: An Autobiography (1874) -- 4. Harriet Martineau, Autobiography (1877) -- 5. Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography (1883) -- 6. John Ruskin, Praeterita (1885-89) -- 7. Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1887) -- 8. Sir Walter Besant, Autobiography (1902) -- 9. Herbert Spencer, An Autobiography (1904) -- 10. Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (1907) -- 11. Francis Galton, Memories of My Life (1908).".
- catalog description "Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these autobiographies intertextually and as a historically defined genre that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as a referential art. The plots of Victorian autobiographies are highly variable in terms of developing motifs and tropes. Autobiographers undergo spiritual and mental crises, live out Romantic and biblical myths, follow historical and scientific paradigms and the dynamic patterns of their own ideas. Nevertheless, underlying this diversity are profound structural similarities in plots of self-development and the implied relationships between self and public works and ideas. In the course of discussing eleven Victorian autobiographies in chronological order, Machann suggests many formal and conventional continuities among them.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-184) and index.".
- catalog description "The eleven autobiographies include those of John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, John Ruskin, and Charles Darwin, among other luminaries of the Victorian era. Juxtaposing well-known works with less familiar ones, Machann helps the reader to explore the boundaries of the genre, appreciate stylistic variations, and identify profound structural similarities, all of which result from the larger Victorian culture. The book will be of interest to students of the Victorian era as well as scholars of life-writing and historical constructions of the self.".
- catalog extent "191 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Genre of autobiography in Victorian literature.".
- catalog identifier "0472105655 (hardcover : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Genre of autobiography in Victorian literature.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Genre of autobiography in Victorian literature.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Historiography.".
- catalog subject "828/.80809492 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 19th century Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, English Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Autobiography.".
- catalog subject "English prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literary form History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literary form.".
- catalog subject "PR788.A9 M33 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) -- 2. John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (1873) -- 3. Robert Dale Owen, Threading My Way: An Autobiography (1874) -- 4. Harriet Martineau, Autobiography (1877) -- 5. Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography (1883) -- 6. John Ruskin, Praeterita (1885-89) -- 7. Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1887) -- 8. Sir Walter Besant, Autobiography (1902) -- 9. Herbert Spencer, An Autobiography (1904) -- 10. Edmund Gosse, Father and Son (1907) -- 11. Francis Galton, Memories of My Life (1908).".
- catalog title "The genre of autobiography in Victorian literature / Clinton Machann.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".