| Description |
222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The halfway house -- Childhood. Memory -- Bereavement -- The transmission of values -- The child alone. Conflict: W.H. Hudson -- Regression: Forrest Reid -- Reconciliation: Edwin Muir -- Paradise shared: Eleanor Farjeon -- Paradise to order: Christopher Milne -- Emotion recollected in cynicism: Lord Berners -- The child at home. The dominant father: Victor Gollancz -- The dominant 'mother': Augustus Hare -- A fluid background: Stephen Spender -- Deprivation: Winifred Foley and Neville Cardus -- The dedicated child. Ruskin -- Edmund Gosse -- Daughter of Bertrand Russell -- Defined by the world. Beatrice Webb -- H.G. Wells -- Bertrand Russell -- The quest. The high quest: Kathleen Raine -- The quest in the world: De Quincey -- Benjamin Haydon -- John Cowper Powys -- The low quest: J.R. Ackerley -- Conversion -- Conclusion |
| Analysis |
Autobiographical prose in English, 1800-1975 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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| LC no. |
84040183 |
| ISBN |
0300032358 |
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