Biography: The Facts
- ISBN-10
- 063122923X
- ISBN-13
- 9780631229230
- Series
- Biography
- Category
- Biography as a literary form
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- German
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Hermione Lee
Description
Explores the origins and development of the biography, closing with contemporary controversies. These centre around struggles to face those who are against biography and to present biography as not just a respectable but an important, theorized subject of academic literary study.
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