Portraits from life : modernist novelists and autobiography / Jerome Boyd Maunsell.

What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather than in novels? How do they present themselves, and what do their self-portraits reveal? In a series of biographical case studies, Portraits from Life examines how seven canonical Modernist write...

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Main Author: Maunsell, Jerome Boyd (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Novelists, English > 20th century > Biography.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Autobiography.
18.05 English literature.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Novelists, American.
Novelists, English.
1900-1999
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:ix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The secret of my life: Joseph Conrad
  • A straight dive into the past: Henry James
  • For facts a most profound contempt: Ford Madox Ford
  • The life apart: Edith Wharton
  • Alive and kicking: H.G. Wells
  • You are never yourself to yourself: Gertrude Stein
  • My life being so difficult a one to live: Wyndham Lewis
  • Epiogue.