Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction
Author:   Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199669240


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   26 July 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Laura Marcus (Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 17.60cm
Weight:   0.132kg
ISBN:  

9780199669240


ISBN 10:   0199669244
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   26 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Confession, Conversion, Testimony 2: The Journeying Self 3: Autobiographical Consciousness 4: Autobiography and psychoanalysis 5: Family Histories and the Autobiography of Childhood 6: Public Selves 7: Self-portraiture, photography and performance References Further Reading Index

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A useful and entertaining introduction to autobiography by its foremost theorist. Clear, comprehensive, and very clever. For students and scholars alike. * Zachary Leader, University of Roehampton *


A useful and entertaining introduction to autobiography by its foremost theorist. Clear, comprehensive, and very clever. For students and scholars alike. * Zachary Leader, University of Roehampton * excellent VSI * ANZ LitLovers LiBlog *


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Laura Marcus is Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy. Marcus has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture, with books on autobiography, Virginia Woolf, modernist writing and literature and film. Her publications in the field of life-writing include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (Manchester Univerity Press, 1994), and numerous essays on autobiography and biography.

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