Biography: A Very Short Introduction

Author:   Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199533541


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 July 2009
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Author:   Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.30cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 17.40cm
Weight:   0.158kg
ISBN:  

9780199533541


ISBN 10:   0199533547
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 July 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

1: The Biography Channel 2: Exemplary Lives 3: Warts and All 4: National Biography 5: Fallen Idols 6: Against Biography 7: Public Roles 8: Telling the Story

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It would be hard to think of anyone better to provide a crisp contribution to OUP's Very Short Introductions. Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian A sophisticated overview for the general reader. Andrew Lycett, Literary Review Enjoyable book on the subject. Henry Power, TLS


Enjoyable book on the subject. * Henry Power, TLS * A sophisticated overview for the general reader. * Andrew Lycett, Literary Review * It would be hard to think of anyone better to provide a crisp contribution to OUP's Very Short Introductions. * Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian *


It would be hard to think of anyone better to provide a crisp contribution to OUP's Very Short Introductions. Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian A sophisticated overview for the general reader. Andrew Lycett, Literary Review Enjoyable book on the subject. Henry Power, TLS


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Hermoine Lee is a well-known literary biographer, author of critical studies of Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, and Philip Roth. She has also written major biographies of Virginia Woolf (1996), and Edith Wharton (2007), a selection of which was published by Princeton University Press as Virginia Woolf's Nose (2005). From 1998 to 2008 she was the Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. She is now President of Wolfson College.

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