David Ellis (4) (1939–)

Auteur de Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding

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A propos de l'auteur

David Ellis is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK). He is the author of the third volume of the Cambridge biography of D. H. Lawrence (Dying Game), published in 1998, and of Death and the author: how D. H. Lawrence died, and was remembered (Oxford afficher plus UP, 2008). His more recent publications include The Truth about William Shakespeare: Fact, fiction and modern biographies (Edinburgh UP, 2012), Memoirs of a Leavisite: The decline and jail of 'Cambridge English' (Liverpool UP, 2013), and Frank Cioffi: The philosopher in shirtsleeves (Bloomsbury, 2015). afficher moins

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Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding (2000) 11 exemplaires

D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence (The Cambridge Biography - D. H.… (1997) 11 exemplaires

The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies (2012) 11 exemplaires

Death and the Author: How D.H. Lawrence Died and Was Remembered (2008) 9 exemplaires

Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 (2011) 8 exemplaires

D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) (2005) 7 exemplaires

That Man Shakespeare: Icon of Modern Culture (Icons of Modern Culture) (2005) 4 exemplaires

Memoirs of a Leavisite: the decline and fall of Cambridge English (2013) 4 exemplaires

Sex and love in D.H. Lawrence (2016) 4 exemplaires

D. H. Lawrence's Non-Fiction: Art, Thought and Genre (1988) 1 exemplaire

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Date de naissance: 1939-06-23
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Byron in Geneva: That Summer of 1816 par David Ellis

The downfall of the genre of biography is that far too often the writer becomes enamored of the secondary (and sometimes even the tertiary) figures in the subject's life. Ellis' book starts of quite strong by staying quite steady on Byron and the Shelleys. However, part two devolves in to an endless litany of minor characters and how they came to be in Geneva that summer. The book gets mired in the minutiae of who called whom what. Worse, the Villa Diodati storytelling episode, arguably one of the most important things that happens that summer, gets merely one chapter. An admirable effort to study Byron in more situational rather than broad-stroke terms, but it doesn't quite work out.… (plus d'informations)

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JWarren42 | Oct 10, 2013 |

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