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Reflections on biography

Author: Paula R Backscheider
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Aimed at all readers of biography - lifelong or occasional, critical or casual - this book examines the subject from many angles, and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and the implications of those choices.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Paula R Backscheider
ISBN: 019818641X 9780198186410
OCLC Number: 41431764
Description: xxii, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The voice of the biographer --
Living with the subject --
Evidence: 'bare patches and profusions' --
Perspective, personality and life shapes --
Feminist pressures --
Pushing the envelope --
Eyeing the future: British professionals and African-American academics.
Responsibility: Paula R. Backscheider.
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Aimed at all readers of biography - lifelong or occasional, critical or casual - this book examines the subject from many angles, and gives a tour of the decisions biographers make and the implications of those choices.

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