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| Named Person: | Percy Bysshe Shelley; Virginia Woolf; Samuel Pepys; Jane Austen; Jane Austen; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Virginia Woolf; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Virginia Woolf; Samuel Pepys; Jane Austen |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hermione Lee |
| ISBN: | 0691120323 9780691120324 |
| OCLC Number: | 56632080 |
| Description: | 141 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Shelley's heart and Pepys's lobsters -- Virginia Woolf's nose -- Jane Austen faints -- How to end it all. |
| Responsibility: | Hermione Lee. |
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Lee's immensely enjoyable study will energize debate among thoughtful readers and should become essential reading for aficionados of literary biography. -- Publishers Weekly Lee's tales of the battles of the biographers are gripping and vivid. There is a lightness of touch for stories of story-making that are often funny... The nose is a funny thing anyway; stick it on to 'Virginia Woolf' or any other of the illustrious names Lee discusses, and you are bound to bring them down a peg. All part of the biographer's power to make or unmake, sniff out or sniff at, which Lee so engagingly shows us. -- Rachel Bowlby, Financial Times Hermione Lee, biographer of Woolf and Willa Cather, acknowledges the 'messy, often contradictory' nature of the craft of biography... Lee concedes [that] Woolf--as any subject--will continue to be reinvented; any life, protean and elusive, refuses to be owned. -- Linda Simon, Biography Lee is able to give the reader an authoritative glimpse of the difficulties that must be overcome when tackling a literary biography... Well written, insightful, and enjoyable. -- Library Journal So many fine literary biographers are practicing that the genre itself is the subject of books with surprising frequency. The most alluring, eccentric and thoughtful example I've come across recently is Virginia Woolf's Nose: Essays on Biography by Dame Hermione Lee. -- George Fatherling, Books in Canada Monumental and long-needed... So much is here for future scholars to use and appreciate from this tremendous and substantive quarry of Stracheyan biographical material. -- Jay Dickson, Woolf Studies Annual The four essays are the equivalent of listening to a smart, kind and personable professor holding forth on her favorite subject... These essays are everywhere informed by the fact that Lee is such an accomplished biographer, a writer who knows the ropes. -- Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune For proof of Hermione Lee's expertise in biography (or, to use the technical term, 'life-writing'), one need only consider her massive and important Virginia Woolf. [There] is a lot to like about this book: for reminding us that Woolf herself was no apologist for the ceremony of death, which she studiously avoids in her fictions; ... and, for writing an accessible and literate treatment of life-writing. For this and for de-mystifying the genre for a post-modern audience, we can thank Hermione Lee. -- Karen Levenback, Virginia Woolf Miscellany Read more...
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- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, -- 1792-1822.
- Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941.
- Pepys, Samuel, -- 1633-1703.
- Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817.
- Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Literaire biografie.
- Biografieën.
- Austen, Jane.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
- Woolf, Virginia.
- Biographie.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe -- (1792-1822) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Woolf, Virginia -- (1882-1941) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Pepys, Samuel -- (1633-1703) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Austen, Jane -- (1775-1817) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Écrivains anglais -- Biographies.
- Biographie (genre littéraire).
