Mapping Lives: The Uses Of Biography (british Academy Centenary Monographs)

These Essays On The Problems And Functions Of Biography - Particularly Those Of Writers, Thinkers And Artists - Investigate A Subject Of Enduring Importance For Those Interested In Culture. The Proper Study? / Richard Holmes -- From Biography To Hagiography / Sergei S. Averintsev -- Biography And Autobiography In The Italian Renaissance / Martin Mclaughlin -- National Biography And The Arts Of Memory / Ian Donaldson -- From Eulogy To Biography: The French Academic Eloge / Peter France -- Adding Stones To The Edifice: Patterns Of German Biography / Roger Paulin -- Shaping Victorian Biography / Elinor S. Shaffer -- Sainte-beuve: Biography, Criticism, And The Literary / Ann Jefferson -- Yury Tynyanov And The Literary Fact / Avril Pyman -- Freud And The Art Of Biography / Malcolm Bowie -- The Newness Of The New Biography / Laura Marcus -- The Biographer As Archaeologist / William St. Clair -- Writing Lives Forwards / Mark Kinkead-weekes -- Shaping The Truth / Miranda Seymour -- Sartre's Existentialist Biographies / Christina Howells -- Life On Film / Ian Christie -- Gender, Biography, And The Public Sphere / Kay Ferres -- The Solace Of Doubt? / James Walter. Edited By Peter France, William St. Clair. Series Statement From Dust-jacket. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.