{"product_id":"9780719055300","title":"Auto\/biographical discourses","description":"Author: Laura Marcus\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780719055300\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 19 Nov 1998\u003cbr\u003ePages: 322 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this critical study, the author explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in 19th- and 20th-century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction - debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it appears either as a dangerous double agent moving between these oppositions, or as an instrument of their reconciliation. This book explores the significance of the genre in eugenics and theories of \"genius\"; the \"new biography\" of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and others; autobiographical and historical consciousness of subjectivity and genre; as well as contemporary autobiographical writings and feminist theories of life writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904439238814,"sku":"ING-9780719055300","price":48.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780719055300.jpg?v=1782453278","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780719055300","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}