English Biography in the Seventeenth Century : A Critical Survey /

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"After charting the growth of seventeenth-century biographical writing, Pritchard explores the ways in which traditional forms of religious biography and lives of princes and other secular figures were adapted to, and transformed by, the crises and revolutions of the period. He then considers t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pritchard, Allan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Prosa.
Biografieën.
Biografie
Biography.
English prose literature.
Biography as a literary form.
English prose literature > Early modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
biographies (literary works)
Prose anglaise > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre litteraire)
Biographies as Topic
English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English prose literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Englisch.
England
England.
Angleterre > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
England > Biography > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The growth of biographical writing.
  • Lives of the Protestant saints.
  • Patterns in religious biography.
  • Izaak Walton's lives.
  • Lives of public figures.
  • Lives of writers: scientists and antiquaries.
  • Lives of the poets.
  • Brief lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood.
  • Brief lives: John Aubrey.
  • Biography as family history.
  • Roger North: lives of the Norths.

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