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Disease of longing

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September 2008, no. 304

Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor

Duke University Press, $59.95 pb, 536 pp

Disease of longing

by
September 2008, no. 304

Carol Mavor is professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester: a specialist in the field of Victorian photography who has written two earlier books on the subject. She is also one of those rare figures capable of subverting orthodox academic research by stealing some of autobiography’s subjective insight and creative writing’s imaginative reach.

Geordie Williamson reviews ' Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott' by Carol Mavor

Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott

by Carol Mavor

Duke University Press, $59.95 pb, 536 pp

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