Writing Life.

Pooler, Mhairi.

Writing Life. - Oxford : Liverpool University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (208 pages). - English Association Monographs LUP .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction 'The Very Complexion of the Mirror'; The Historical Horizon; Creative Autobiography; 1. The Writer Reading ; Tradition and Inheritance: The Künstlerroman; 'Influence (Inflowing)'; 2. The Anxiety of Inheritance Edmund Gosse's Father and Son; Victorian and Modern; Religion and Literature; 3. The Art of Life ; Making a Scene; The Fostered Imagination; 'Convert, convert, convert!'; 4. A Twofold Experiment with Time ; 'Fictionalized Reality, Essayized Autobiography'; 'Nostalgic and Breezy Reminiscences' ; 'England's Young Soldier-Poet' 5. An Investigation of Reality The Art of Fiction; Pilgrimage's Progress; Of Language, of Meaning, of Mr Henry James; Conclusion: Reading the Writer; Bibliography; Index.

A study of the artist autobiography in the period between Victorianism and Modernism.



9781781384794


Autobiography--English authors.
Autobiography--Authorship.
World War, 1914-1918.


Electronic Books.

CT34 / .W758 2015