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Ann Jefferson. Biography and the Question of Literature in France

2007; Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA); Issue: 5.2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/erea.647

1638-1718

Joanny Moulin,

Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

Ann Jefferson’s provocative study, Biography and the Question of Literature in France, examines not only the relationship between literature and biography but also the critical discourse that has accompanied what she calls “the blur of generic boundaries, blending biography with autobiography, or fiction with reportage and the essay.” Jefferson’s limpid prose makes this study a pleasure to read. She opens her study with the eighteenth century when the term biography first entered the French l...