a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives Atkinson, Juliette. creator text bibliography enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2010 monographic eng

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viii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Juliette Atkinson. Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index. e-uk--- English prose literature 19th century History and criticism Biography as a literary form Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Biography History and criticism Great Britain Intellectual life 19th century 920.009034 A J V 9780199572137 (hbk.) 0199572135 (hbk.) 2010930295 UKM 111215 20150408114000.0 16273984