{"product_id":"writing-lives-leon-edel-9780393303827","title":"Writing Lives: Principia Biographica","description":"The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his \u003cem\u003eLiterary Biography\u003c\/em\u003e expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography--an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the biographer's own subjectivity, and the skills of the novelist. Mr. Edel includes a history of the art of biography since Boswell, criticism of some of the best-known biographers, advice for the biographer on documentation and the use of psychological theory, and a discussion of what Edel calls the supreme problem in biography--transference, the life-writer's emotional involvement with his or her subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leon Edel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393303829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393303827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.53w x 0.81d","brand":"Leon Edel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992972886271,"sku":"9780393303827","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df0ac452-eeac-4cbb-ac40-ba98c6d389e5.jpg?v=1683321824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-lives-leon-edel-9780393303827","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}