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"Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle trad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Caldwell, Tanya, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Temas:
1700-1799
Biography as a literary form > History > 18th century.
Autobiography > History > 18th century.
Autobiography in literature.
Biography in literature.
Biographie (Genre littéraire) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Autobiographie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Autobiographie dans la littérature.
Biographies dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY.
Autobiography
Autobiography in literature
Biography
Biography as a literary form
Biography in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Europe > Biography > History and criticism.
Europe > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Europe
memoir, autobiography, Burney, Boswell, life writing, James Boswell, Frances Burney, Hester Lynn Piozzi, Alexander d'Arblay, Alicia LeFanu, Charles Burney, Isabelle d'Charriere, William Godwin, family, 18th century, Samuel Johnson, biography, Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Male Figures, Females Figures, Culture.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Art of Writing Lives / Tanya Caldwell
  • Dr. Johnson's Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale': Hester Lynch Piozzi's Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LLD / Lisa Berglund
  • The Education of Alexander d'Arblay: "The Idol of the World" / Peter Sabor
  • Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D'Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography / Marilyn Francus
  • The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: 'Written by Herself' / Victoria Warren
  • Clashes of conversations in James Boswell's Hebrides and Life of Johnson and 'My Firm Regard to Authenticity / James J. Caudle
  • Charles Burney's Handel Reconsidered / Todd Gilman.

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