Victorian Biography
This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory. A re-reading of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, particularly "Sartor Resartus" and Oliver Cromwell''s "Letters and Speeches", provides the basis for the central argument of the book: that the biographical writings of late-19th-century figures such as John...
This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory. A re-reading of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, particularly "Sartor Resartus" and Oliver Cromwell''s "Letters and Speeches", provides the basis for the central argument of the book: that the biographical writings of late-19th-century figures such as John...
