Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor 9781474406635

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Автор: Helena Michie, Robyn Warhol
Название: Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor
ISBN: 9781474406635
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Проза: документальная

Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 1474406637
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 256
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 21.09.2015
Серия: Biography
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 25 b& illustrations
Размер: 242 x 162 x 20
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Biography: general,Prose: non-fiction,Literary studies: general,Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Описание: Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research,?Love Among the Archives?is an experiment in writing a life. This is the story of two literary critics’?attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, famous in his day and strangely obscure in our own. After discovering Scharf’s scrapbook of menus and invitations from England’s most stately homes, the authors began their adventures in the archives of London, searching Scharf’s diaries, sketchbooks, and letters for traces of the man who so loved dining out. Addicted to Victorian novels, the authors looked for a marriage plot, but found Scharf’s passionate attachment to a younger man who had hidden from him a secret engagement; they looked for a Bildungsroman, but found that Scharf never left his beloved mother.?Always short of money, self-educated, talented, irascible, gregarious, prolific, and snobbish, this son of a poor immigrant artist was to become the right-hand man of an earl he called?“my best friend.”?The written record of his nightmares, debts, gifts, and dinner parties?comes together to produce a rich Victorian character whose personal and professional lives challenge what we think we know about sex, class, and profession in his time. Helena Michie is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor of English at Rice University.? She is the author of Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal (2006), Sororophobia: Differences Among Women in Literature and Culture (1991) and The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies (1987) and co-editor with Ronald Thomas of Nineteenth-Century Geographies: From the Victorian Age to the American Century (2002). Robyn Warhol is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University, where she is a core faculty member of Project Narrative.? She is the author of Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop Culture Forms (2003) and Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (1989) and co-editor with Susan S. Lanser of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions (2015).

Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of Sir George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor, Helena Michie, Robyn Warhol