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"Absorbing and infomative Mapping Lives valuably provides accounts of the genre's development in a range of cultural contexts."--Times Literary Supplement
"An impressive collection of essays about the craft of biography."--The Economist
"It is one of the best contributions to the life-writing critical industry of the last decade."--Modern Language Review
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"Mapping Lives valuably provides accounts of the genre's development in a range of cultural contexts."
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As he set out to wreak havoc on his four Eminent Victorians in 1918, Lytton Strachey tenderly suggested that English biography might eventually rediscover its true calling as 'the most delicate and most humane of all the branches of the art of writing'. Read the first page
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As he set out to wreak havoc on his four Eminent Victorians in 1918, Lytton Strachey tenderly suggested that English biography might eventually rediscover its true calling as 'the most delicate and most humane of all the branches of the art of writing'. Read the first page
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