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A Brief History of Biographies: From Plutarch to Celebs (Brief Histories (Paperback)) (Paperback)
$13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Brief History of BiographiesA Brief History of Biographies considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes to subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
Full description- Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
- Published: 01 November 2011
- Format: Paperback 112 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary | Literary Studies: General | Literary Reference Works | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9781843919728 ISBN 10: 1843919729
- Sales rank: 1,022,614
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Full description for A Brief History of Biographies
Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages? Modern biographies, Andrew Brown argues, inspire by framing life as a struggle - against drink, drugs, depression or deprivation - that is eventually won. Yet this trajectory can be found in even the earliest lives of saints, struggling against the devil. A Brief History of Biographies considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes to subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
