Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy

by Michael Millgate

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112769
• ISBN13: 9780198112761
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"