World-Noted Women, Or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages (Classic Reprint)
World-Noted Women, Or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages (Classic Reprint)

Author: Mary Cowden Clarke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-16

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780259433309

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Excerpt from World-Noted Women, or Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages Panama together in a collected form of analytical disquisition, and pictorial illustration, several of the women most noted in the world's eu nals, it is interesting to consider the individuality marking each; and the curious variety of respective distinction, which has set these personages apart, as either renowned or notorious, above the ordinary range-of their sisterhood. In thus considering them, I have taken leave to judge creep tional characters by exceptional rules; and, since this selection was made for me, - not chosen by myself, - I have written upon them with large (not so much allowance, as) construction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

World-Noted Women
World-Noted Women

Author: Mary Cowden Clarke

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9781293137741

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

On Life-Writing
On Life-Writing

Author: Zachary Leader

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0191009032

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'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings include not only memoir, autobiography, biography, diaries, autobiographical fiction, and biographical fiction, but letters, writs, wills, written anecdotes, depositions, marginalia, lyric poems, scientific and historical writings, and digital forms (including blogs, tweets, Facebook entries). On Life-Writing offers a sampling of approaches to the study of life-writing, introducing readers to something of the range of forms the term encompasses, their changing fortunes and features, the notions of 'life,' 'self' and 'story' which help to explain these changing fortunes and features, recent attempts to group forms, the permeability of the boundaries between forms, the moral problems raised by life-writing in all forms, but particularly in fictional forms, and the relations between life-writing and history, life-writing and psychoanalysis, life-writing and philosophy. The essays mostly focus on individual instances rather than fields, whether historical, theoretical or generic. Generalizations are grounded in particulars. For example, the role of the 'life-changing encounter,' a frequent trope in literary life-writing, is pondered by Hermione Lee through an account of a much-storied first meeting between the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova; James Shapiro examines the history of the 'cradle to grave' life-narrative, as well as the potential distortions it breeds, by focusing on Shakespeare biography, in particular attempts to explain Shakespeare's so-called 'lost years'.