1st Edition
Victorian Biography Intellectuals and the Ordering of Discourse
By David Amigoni
Copyright 1993
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory. A re-reading of the writings of Thomas Carlyle, particularly "Sartor Resartus" and Oliver Cromwell's "Letters and Speeches", provides the basis for the central argument of the book: that the biographical writings of late-19th-century figures such as John... Read more
1. Historic rising academic disciplines 2. Biography and the ordering of discourse 3. Re-reading the rhetohcal hero in Carlylean biography 4. The Comtean ordering of discourse 5. Biographies of statesmen and the epistemology of positive political history 6. Limiting the literary - biography and the construction of a fellowship of discourse 7. Custodians of discourse
Biography
David Amigoni is Professor of Victorian Literature at Keele University, UK.
