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Reflections on Biography.
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This book offers an earnest, wide-ranging discussion which joins John Batchelor's The Art of Literary Biography (1989), and Michael Millgate's Testamentary Acts (1992) on OUP's `life-writing' list.
Backscheider reflections on biography of alh
The subject is booming, particularly in America. Paula Backscheider, herself a distinguished biographer of Defoe, teaches it at Auburn University, Alabama. One might therefore expect her to discuss biographies by fellow academics.
Not a bit of it.
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Instead, she `unintentionally' (p. xix) excludes them by examining a broad range of prize-winning texts: lives of politicians and their wives (the Roosevelts), of soldiers, of writers (by the `British professionals'), of women (by feminists), and of Afro-Americans (by Black writers).
As she admits, however, the intention to ignore the dons is there