This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whilst pretending to be poor. The most famous example is Down and Out in Paris and London, but there has been a vast array of other works in the genre since it was created in 1866 by James Greenwood's 'A Night in a Workhouse'. It draws up a classification of incognito social investigation texts, dividing them into four subtypes. The first comprises those texts following most narrowly in James Greenwood's footsteps, taking the extreme poor...
This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts - in other words, works detailing their authors' experiences whil...
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars and practicing biographers from several disciplines (Modern Languages, English and Comparative Literature, Creative Writing). It covers a broad range of biographical, autobiographical, and hybrid practices in a variety of national literatures, among them many recent works: texts that test the ground between fact and fiction, that are marked by impressionist, self-reflexive and intermedial methods, by their recourse to myth, folklore, poetry, or...
This volume examines innovative intersections of life-writing and experimental fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together scholars a...
This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans,...
This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial Bri...
Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition.
Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the cir...
This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. After presenting a historical overview of the place of food within men's autobiography, this volume analyzes the reasons for our present interest in food and the proliferation of life narratives focused on cooking.
This book is concerned with food autobiographies written by men from the 1980s to the present. After presenting a historical overview of the place of ...
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context...
This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women's life writing texts such as memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, travel logs, and graphic memoirs.
This collection of essays offers a stimulating insight into the practice of reading and the relationship between reading and writing in women's life w...
It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in the language used to describe combat, and through an analysis of those people whose accounts of the war were either excluded or marginalised.
It provides contextual analysis through a survey of the different types of contemporary writing about the Great War, through an analysis of changes in...
