Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography [Hardcover]

Mary Evans (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415099757 | ISBN-13: 978-0415099752 | Publication Date: January 29, 1999 | Edition: 1

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.

Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the `missing persons - of auto/biography. Mary Evans' book will provide invaluable reading for students of womens studies, sociology and cultural studies courses.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Evans makes a useful contribution to the conversation with this account of British autobiographical practices over the last century....Evans's study is insightful and lucid.
–Choice

About the Author

Mary Evans is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her publications include The Battle for Britain with David Morgan (Routledge, 1993), Simone de Beauvoir (1996), and Introducing Contemporary Feminist Thought (1996).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415099757
• ISBN-13: 978-0415099752
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,693,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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