Sir Richard Holmes
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Gefällt mir
Später
Fertig
Notizen
Sammlung
Das erwartet Dich
In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with re-creating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, but on their biographers, as well. He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives (Percy Shelley's death at sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-fueled lectures), and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature. These portraits are deftly woven with Holmes' own experience as a biographer. A spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity of Holmes' catalog.
Erlebe die ganze Geschichte
Die verstehen ihr Handwerk
Verlag anzeigen
Wendy Hinote Lanier
Julie Maloney
Fred Venturini
Alyssa Sheinmel
Richard Tregaskis
Beifall für dieses Ensemble
Reviews von unseren Experten
Noch keine Reviews
Fangen Sie an, indem Sie Ihre eigene Bewertung schreiben.