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050 00 $aCT21$b.B28 1999
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100 1 $aBackscheider, Paula R.
245 10 $aReflections on biography /$cPaula R. Backscheider.
260 $aNew York ;$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c1999.
263 $a9911
300 $axxii, 289 pages :$billustrations, 1 portrait ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253] - 279) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tThe Basics.$g1.$tThe Voice of the Biographer.$g2.$tLiving with the Subject.$g3.$tEvidence: 'Bare Patches and Profusions'.$g4.$tPerspective, Personality, and Life Shapes --$gII.$tExpansions.$g5.$tFeminist Pressures.$g6.$tPushing the Envelope.$g7.$tEyeing the Future: British Professionals and African-American Academics.
520 1 $a"Reflections on Biography, written by the author of an award-winning life of Daniel Defoe, is an invitation to turn 'biography' over in the mind as we turn an artefact in our hands. Intended for all readers of biography - lifelong or occasional, critical or casual - it examines the subject from many angles, and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and the implications of those choices.
520 8 $aIts aim is to increase the pleasure of reading biographies, to add new, enjoyable dimensions even as it increases readers' insights into the art of writing them. Among the biographies given special attention are prize-winning lives of writers, mathematical geniuses, intellectual women, the Roosevelts, and unusual marriage partners.
520 8 $aThe book is full of lively comparisons, for instance, of Keats by Walter Jackson Bate, Andrew Motion, and others, and of a century of biographies of Edith Wharton."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aBiography as a literary form.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014164
650 4 $aBiography as a literary form.
852 00 $bglx$hCT21$i.B28 1999