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The American Biographical Novel

By Michael Lackey

The American Biographical Novel

By Michael Lackey

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Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2016-04-07
Publication Date:
2016-04-07
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1628926341
ISBN13:
9781628926347
Weight:
499 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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