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My Victorians : Lost in the Nineteenth Century /
"My Victorians is a hybrid in both form and content, part memoir/extended lyric essay but also a work of biography and of cultural, literary and art history. It's in the 'innocents abroad' tradition, a travelogue of writer Robert Clark's attempt to work through a sudden and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "My Victorians is a hybrid in both form and content, part memoir/extended lyric essay but also a work of biography and of cultural, literary and art history. It's in the 'innocents abroad' tradition, a travelogue of writer Robert Clark's attempt to work through a sudden and inexplicable five-year long obsession centered on Victorian novelists, artists, buildings, and critics. Sometimes comic, sometimes perplexed, it's a little in the spirit of Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage on the one hand and Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch on the other, a historical investigation that turns into a bildungsroman and, finally, something like a psycho-spiritual memoir"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781609386689 |