The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature

Machann, Clinton

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“…A useful source from the literature on autobiography is Conway 1998. The rise of autobiographical writing in the nineteenth century is discussed in Machann 1994 andPeterson 1986. 14 For the visit, see Smith 1994, item 5248, 19 October 1866. regard Haeckel's hero-worship with amused delight, "a great good-natured boy," they called him.…”

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Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

Browne

2003

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ArgumentSeveral recent works in sociology examine the manufacture of public identities through the notion of celebrity. This paper explores the imagery of Charles Darwin as a nineteenthcentury scientific celebrity by comparing the public character deliberately manufactured by Darwin and his friends with images constructed by the public as represented here by caricatures in humorous magazines of the era. It is argued that Darwin's outward persona drew on a subtle tension between public and private. The boundaries between public and private were blurred by the ritual of Darwin "showing" himself in the flesh, either at home to visitors or, more rarely, on public occasions. The reputation for privacy and illness that he built up added materially to this public face. By contrast, caricatures tended to depict him as an ape. These apish representations played a significant role in associating Darwin, rather than any other thinker, with the notion of evolution, and in creating an alternative public persona over which he had no direct control.

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Charles Darwin as a Celebrity

Browne

2003

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“…Clinton Machann, for example, in his The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994), offers a comparative study of eleven works, but his selection is exclusive -he omits works that do not conform to Philippe Lejeune's prescriptive 'autobiographical pact'. 3 His 'discovery' of conformity and capitulation to generic standards is therefore unsurprising.…”

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