Authors' Lives: On Literary Biography and the Arts of Language
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ISBN: 0312042612 / Publisher: St Martins Pr, July 1990
Describes methods used to portray authors' lives, discussing form, research, style, and documentation
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Honan (English, U. of Leeds), biographer of Jane Austen and Matthew Arnold, discusses practical theory as well as the English tradition of the genre; new approaches to Austen's life; and writers whose work he regards as quality biographical prose. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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