Victorian biography reconsidered :
Atkinson, Juliette.
Victorian biography reconsidered : a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives / Juliette Atkinson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - viii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index.
The many faces of Victorian biography -- Victorian hero-worship -- "The simple annals of the poor": biographies of humble men -- "Tragic failures" and "happy mediocrity": biographies of unsuccessful men -- "Quiet and uneventful"?: female literary biography -- "Inheritors of unfulfill'd renown": championing Romantic poets -- "Forgotten benefactors": the Dictionary of national biography -- Conclusion: "The lives of the obscure" and Virginia Woolf.
9780199572137 (hbk.) 0199572135 (hbk.)
2010930295
English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Biography as a literary form.
Great Britain--History--Biography--History and criticism.--Victoria, 1837-1901
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
920.009034 A J V
Victorian biography reconsidered : a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives / Juliette Atkinson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - viii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index.
The many faces of Victorian biography -- Victorian hero-worship -- "The simple annals of the poor": biographies of humble men -- "Tragic failures" and "happy mediocrity": biographies of unsuccessful men -- "Quiet and uneventful"?: female literary biography -- "Inheritors of unfulfill'd renown": championing Romantic poets -- "Forgotten benefactors": the Dictionary of national biography -- Conclusion: "The lives of the obscure" and Virginia Woolf.
9780199572137 (hbk.) 0199572135 (hbk.)
2010930295
English prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Biography as a literary form.
Great Britain--History--Biography--History and criticism.--Victoria, 1837-1901
Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
920.009034 A J V