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Victorian Biographyintell

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Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse is a new and original study of an important nineteenth-century genre. The book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucaldian discourse theory. The book includes a significant re-reading of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, particularly Sartor Resartus and Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, which emphasises the transgressive role that these writings played in nineteenth-century print culture. This re-reading provides the basis for the central argument of the book: that the biographical writings of such late nineteenth-century figures as John Morley, Frederic Harrison, Leslie Stephen and J.R. Seeley need to be seen as an argument against Carlyle's writing practices, and as an attempt to impose cultural discipline on reading practices. The book contends that biography is a key genre for understanding debates between nineteenth-century intellectuals about the circulation and use of 'literary' and 'historical' discourses. As such, it is also a timely intervention in the current debate about the emergence of the disciplines of 'literature' and 'history' in the nineteenth century.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 01, 1993

ISBN 13: 9780312103941

Victorian Biographyintell

0/5 ( ratings)

Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse is a new and original study of an important nineteenth-century genre. The book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucaldian discourse theory. The book includes a significant re-reading of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, particularly Sartor Resartus and Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, which emphasises the transgressive role that these writings played in nineteenth-century print culture. This re-reading provides the basis for the central argument of the book: that the biographical writings of such late nineteenth-century figures as John Morley, Frederic Harrison, Leslie Stephen and J.R. Seeley need to be seen as an argument against Carlyle's writing practices, and as an attempt to impose cultural discipline on reading practices. The book contends that biography is a key genre for understanding debates between nineteenth-century intellectuals about the circulation and use of 'literary' and 'historical' discourses. As such, it is also a timely intervention in the current debate about the emergence of the disciplines of 'literature' and 'history' in the nineteenth century.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Release: November 01, 1993

ISBN 13: 9780312103941

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