Victorian Biography: Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780745007717 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 208 str.

David (University of Sunderland) Amigoni

Opis

Rethinks Victorian biography and some of its practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory. The book argues that the biographical writings of some late-19th-century figures need to be seen as an attempt to impose cultural discipline on reading practices.

Spis treści

1. Historic rising academic disciplines  2. Biography and the ordering of discourse  3. Re-reading the rhetohcal hero in Carlylean biography  4. The Comtean ordering of discourse  5. Biographies of statesmen and the epistemology of positive political history  6. Limiting the literary - biography and the construction of a fellowship of discourse  7. Custodians of discourse

O autorze

David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK.