Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for UnderstandingThis book meditates on the nature of biography and the way biographers habitually explain their subjects' loves by reference to psychology, ancestry, childhood experience, social relations, the body, or illness. |
Contents
| 1 | |
2 Biography and Explanation | 20 |
3 Ancestors | 39 |
4 Primal Scenes | 56 |
5 Body Matters | 76 |
6 The Sociological Imagination | 97 |
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