Testamentary Acts by Michael Millgate

Testamentary Acts by Michael Millgate

The testamentary acts of Michael Millgate's title are those strategies of self-protection and self-projection - textual and personal, before and after death - by which authors seek in old age to enhance posterity's view of themselves and their work. The four figures examined here in detail - Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, and Thomas Hardy - sought to maintain their personal privacy and control the integrity of their 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 omitted items they no longer wished to preserve.

detailed, elegantly-written and acutely thoughtful book.. he traces marvellously the aims and consequences of "explicit and implicit testamentary acts". * Sunday Telegraph *
lucid yet magnificently detailed narratives * Times Higher Education Supplement *

Millgate is author of the acclaimed Hardy: A Biography (Clarendon Paperback), Thomas Hardy Collected, Selected Letters, and editor of Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems (NOES, 1963, reissued 1973)

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ISBN 13	9780198183662
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Titre	Testamentary Acts
Auteur	Michael Millgate
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Oxford University Press
Année de publication	1995-07-13
Nombre de pages	288
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