In this volume, leading historians reflect on the recent biographical turn in studies of slavery and the modern African diaspora. This collection presents vivid glimpses into the lives of remarkable enslaved and formerly enslaved people who moved, struggled, and endured in the e…
Fascinating, wide-ranging, hugely knowledgeable - an indispensable guide and a beguiling education William Boyd Packed with insights and advice - just the inspiration to start writing! Jenny Uglow Everyone has a story This book shows how the best writers tell them, and offers ad…
The thirst for real-life stories is an area of creative non-fiction that is exploding in popularity. Biographers Carole Angier and Sally Cline teach at the world famous Arvon Foundation writing course and have distilled the essence of their course into this practical handbook.
These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the important literary …
Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics…
Duff offers a unique insight into the reception of classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century A.D. The text also explores and challenges issues of psychology, education, morality and cultural identity.
Duff offers a unique insight into the reception of classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century A.D. The text also explores and challenges issues of psychology, education, morality and cultural identity.
Writing Life Stories is a classic text that appears on countless creative nonfiction and composition syllabi the world over. Readers will discover how to turn their untold life stories into vivid personal essays and riveting memoirs by learning to open up memory, access emotions…
