Body Parts
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to ''life-writing'': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers'' lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and...
As readers, we seem to be increasingly fascinated by studies of individual lives. In this timely, unusual and exhilarating collection Hermione Lee is concerned in different ways with approaches to ''life-writing'': the relation of biography to fiction and history; the exploration of writers'' lives in connection with their works; the new and changing ways in which biographies, memoirs, diaries and...
