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Author Millgate, Michael

Title Testamentary acts : Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy / Michael Millgate
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Contents Introduction -- Robert and Pen Browning -- Alfred and Hallam Tennyson -- Henry James -- Thomas Hardy -- Florence Hardy -- Testamentary acts
Summary The testamentary acts of Michael Millgate's title are those strategies of self-protection and self-projection by which authors attempt in old age to enhance posterity's view of themselves and their work. The four figures examined in detail here--Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, and Thomas Hardy--sought to maintain posthumous control over their personal privacy and the integrity of their finally approved texts by, for example, destroying documents, writing autobiographies, revising their earlier works and supplying them with retrospective prefaces, and publishing so-called 'collected' editions that in fact omitted items they no longer wished to preserve. Such strategies, though widely practised by writers, may yield altogether unanticipated results, and this study also examines the difficult role of such literary executors as Pen Browning, Hallam Tennyson, and Florence Hardy, called upon to exercise a delegated, hence compromised, authority. A concluding chapter gives briefer consideration to the wills and wishes of many other literary figures, from Samuel Johnson to Walt Whitman to Philip Larkin, and argues that biographers, editors, and readers in general need to be more attentive to these authorial end-games--to the often disregarded final years of writers and to the aims and consequences of their explicit and implicit testamentary acts
Analysis English literature History, 1837-1900
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 -- Authorship
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Authorship
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Authorship
James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Authorship
SUBJECT Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 fast
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast
James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 fast
Browning, Robert 1812-1889 gnd
Hardy, Thomas 1840-1928 gnd
James, Henry 1843-1916 gnd
Tennyson, Alfred 1809-1892 gnd
Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892) ram
Browning, Robert, (1812-1889) ram
Hardy, Thomas, (1840-1928) ram
James, Henry, (1843-1916) ram
James, Henry. swd
Hardy, Thomas. swd
Browning, Robert. swd
Tennyson, Alfred. swd
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- Criticism, Textual
Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Transmission of texts.
Wills -- Great Britain
Canon (Literature)
Autobiography.
Executors and administrators -- England
Wills.
autobiography (genre)
wills.
Executors and administrators
Authors, English -- Biography
Authorship
Autobiography
Canon (Literature)
English literature
Transmission of texts
Wills
Schriftsteller
Nachlass
Literaire nalatenschappen.
Engels.
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Écrivains anglais -- 18e siècle -- Biographies.
Transmission de textes.
Testaments -- Grande-Bretagne.
Canons littéraires.
English authors -- History and criticism -- Biography.
Geschichte 1850-1950.
England
Great Britain
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies
Autobiographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191674099
0191674095
9780198183662
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