How Long to Read Nineteenth-Century Lives

How Long Does it Take to Read Nineteenth-Century Lives?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read Nineteenth-Century Lives by Jerome Hamilton Buckley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this unique collection of essays, ten distinguished critics and biographers consider what it means to narrate a life. Their illustrative texts are largely taken from nineteenth-century biography, autobiography, and the novel, but narrative is the broader genre that unites their various inquiries. The principal issues are framed by Margaret Atwood, J. Hillis Miller, and Phyllis Rose. Atwood compares and contrasts the biographer and the novelist as creators of narratives, emphasizing that the difference is in the "ground rules". Determining what these ground rules are is a recurring theme in these essays. Some of the subjects discussed are the boundaries of fact and fiction, the professed power of the narrator, and the figurative underpinnings of autobiography. Many of these pieces are delightful and provocative biographical and autobiographical excursions in themselves. Atwood describes her early fear of biography, Morton Cohen narrates an exciting bit of detective work he conducted into the life of Lewis Carroll, and John Rosenberg gives a vivid and frequently revisionary reading of many aspects of Darwin's life. Other critics--Carl Woodring, Richard Altick, Norman Kelvin, Margaret Stetz and Robert Kiely--consider related topics. The contributors, as well as the editors, have all been colleagues or students of the eminent critic and biographer, Jerome Hamilton Buckley, in whose honor these essays have been written.

How long is Nineteenth-Century Lives?

Nineteenth-Century Lives by Jerome Hamilton Buckley is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nineteenth-Century Lives Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Nineteenth-Century Lives aloud.

What Reading Level is Nineteenth-Century Lives?

Nineteenth-Century Lives is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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