[BOOK][B] Contesting the Subject: essays in the postmodern theory and practice of biography and biographical criticism

WH Epstein - 1991 - books.google.com
WH Epstein
1991books.google.com
Stanley Fish opens the collection with a persuasive argument for the role of intention and
biography. Michael McKeon, Gordon Turnbull, and Jerome Christensen are concerned with
the late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century English cultural discourse that gave rise to
the nearly simultaneous emergence of literary biography, Romantic sensibility, and reflexive
human consciousness. The essays by Alison Booth, Cheryl Walker, and Sharon O'Brien
reveal that the recognition or lack thereof the biographical subject has received and remains …
Stanley Fish opens the collection with a persuasive argument for the role of intention and biography. Michael McKeon, Gordon Turnbull, and Jerome Christensen are concerned with the late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century English cultural discourse that gave rise to the nearly simultaneous emergence of literary biography, Romantic sensibility, and reflexive human consciousness. The essays by Alison Booth, Cheryl Walker, and Sharon O'Brien reveal that the recognition or lack thereof the biographical subject has received and remains both a problem and an opportunity for women writers and readers. The essays by Valerie Ross, Rob Wilson, Steven Weiland, and William Epstein pursue the question of difference and cultural reification in the theory and practice of a specifically American biography and biographical criticism.
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