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A Brief History Of Biographies: From Plutarch To Celebs
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 DescriptionA 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. Author descriptionAndrew 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). |
