A Brief History of Biographies: From Plutarch to Celebs
Author(s): Andrew Brown
A Brief History of Biographies considers the ways in which developments such as changing attitudes to subjectivity and the self, the cult of the artist and psychoanalysis have brought this most fascinating of forms from its early religious connotations to its present state.
General Information
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- : Hesperus Press Ltd
- : Hesperus Press Ltd
- : 01 October 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Andrew Brown
- : Paperback
- : 809.9492
- : 112
More About The Product
Andrew Brown is a translator and former teacher of French literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. He is the author of Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert and Brief Lives: Stendhal (both Hesperus Press).
