Virginia Woolf's Nose Essays on Biography

Name: Virginia Woolf's Nose Essays on Biography
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ISBN: 9780691130446

ISBN-10: 0691130442

ISBN-13: 9780691130446

Edition: 2005 (Annotated)

Authors: Hermione Lee

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What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biography deals with myths and legends, what goes missing and what can't be proved in the story of a life.Virginia Woolf's Nosepresents a variety of case-studies, in which literary biographers are faced with gaps and absences, unprovable stories and ambiguities surrounding their subjects. By looking at stories about Percy Bysshe Shelley's shriveled,…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.67" wide x 8.54" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters



Virginia Woolf's Nose



Jane Austen Faints



How to End It All


Notes


Index