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Victorian biography reconsidered : a study of nineteenth-century "hidden" lives / Juliette Atkinson.

Author/creator Atkinson, Juliette
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Descriptionviii, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
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Subject(s)
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.
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [265]-306) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010930295
ISBN9780199572137 (hbk.)
ISBN0199572135 (hbk.)

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