Testamentary Acts Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy

Name: Testamentary Acts Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy
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ISBN: 9780198183662

ISBN-10: 0198183666

ISBN-13: 9780198183662

Edition: 1995 (Reprint)

Authors: Michael Millgate

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The testamentary acts of Michael Millgate's title are those strategies of self-protection and self-projection--textual and personal, before and after death--by which authors seek in old age to enhance posterity's view of themselves and their work. The four figures examined here in detail--Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, and Thomas Hardy--sought to maintain their personal privacy and control the integrity of their texts by, for example, destroying documents, writing autobiographies, revising their earlier works and supplying them with retrospective prefaces, and publishing so-called "collected" editions that omitted items they no longer wished to preserve. These and other…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Michael Millgate is University Professor of English Emeritus, University of Toronto.