Lives Out of Letters

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Lives Out of Letters is written by Robert N. Hudspeth and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838640052 (ISBN 10) and 9780838640050 (ISBN 13).

Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, artention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. Dedicated to Robert N. Hudspeth, editor of the Letters of Margaret Fuller and the Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, the eleven essays in this collection address from a practitioner's perspective the relationship between American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation.