Research Catalog

Title

Biographical passages : essays in Victorian and Modernist biography / edited by Joe Law and Linda K. Hughes.

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Lago, Mary.
• Law, Joe.
• Hughes, Linda K.

Description

ix, 208 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Challenging the view that modern biographies are radically different from the straitlaced and ponderous Victorian tomes, Joe Law and Linda K. Hughes illustrate that continuities in biogrpahical practice do exist, proving, for example, that the "tell-all" biography is not the exclusive preserve of the twentieth century. Enlisting the talents of biographers and scholars, Biographical Passages is an exploration of the art and craft of biography.".
• "Law and Hughes conclude Biographical Passages with an epilogue in tribute to a scholar whose work is closely connected to all the essays in this collection - Mary Lago."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Biography as a literary form
• English prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Aesthetics) > Great Britain
• English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism

Note

• "Honoring Mary M. Lago."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• "Publications by Mary Lago": p. 193-198.

Contents

"And What Have You Done?": Victorian Biography Today / Joe Law and Linda K. Hughes -- The Craftlike Nature of Biography / P. N. Furbank -- "On the Border-line between the Old and the New": Bloomsbury, Biography, and Gerald Brenan / Michael Holroyd -- "A Kind of Voyage": E. M. Forster and Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd / Mary C. Francis -- Victorian Artists' Family Biographies: Domestic Authority, the Marketplace, and the Artist's Body / Julie F. Codell -- Infinite Rest: Sleep, Death, and the Awakening in the Late Works of Edward Burne-Jones / Debra N. Mancoff -- The Road from Poodur: A Passage to America / Anantha Sudhaker Babbili -- Essaying Biography: The Career of Mary Lago / Linda K. Hughes and Joe Law -- Publications by Mary Lago.

ISBN

0826212565 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99048271

OCLC

ocm42462984

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries