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This Routledge book examines Victorian biography through the lens of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory, offering fresh insights into how 19th-century intellectuals shaped biographical writing. The author provides a detailed re-reading of Thomas Carlyle's major works, including Sartor Resartus and his edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, establishing these texts as foundational to understanding later Victorian biography. The book argues that biographical writings by John Morley, Frederick Harrison, Leslie Stephen, and J.R. Seeley represent a deliberate response to Carlyle's methods and represent an effort to establish cultural discipline over reading practices. This scholarly work bridges literary criticism and intellectual history, tracing how biographical discourse evolved during the late 19th century and how successive generations of writers contested and reshaped the conventions of life-writing to reflect changing ideas about knowledge, authority, and the role of the intellectual in society.

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Applies Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory to analyse Victorian biographical writing and its intellectual foundations.

Re-examines Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and his editorial work on Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches as central to understanding biographical practice.

Traces how John Morley, Frederick Harrison, Leslie Stephen, and J.R. Seeley challenged Carlyle's biographical methods in their own writings.

Explores how Victorian biography functioned as a means of imposing cultural discipline on reading practices and intellectual interpretation.

Product Specifications
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Routledge
Format
hardcover
ASIN
1138160067
Category
Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > 1701-1900
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
19 January 2017
Listed Since
21 November 2016

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