A01=Alan Shelston
Andre Maurois
anecdotal narrative forms
Author_Alan Shelston
biographical theory
Boswell's Life
Boswell's Work
Boswell’s Life
Boswell’s Work
bronte
Carlyle's Life
Carlyle’s Life
Category=DNB
Category=DSB
charlotte
Commemorative Biography
Coxon Fund
cultural context analysis
cultural history
Currer Bell
Eminent Victorians
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
exemplum studies
fact versus fiction in biography
gaskell's
Human Kind
Human Suffering
life
life writing theory
literary historiography
lytton
Lytton Strachey
Man's Unconquerable Mind
Man’s Unconquerable Mind
Mental Development
Mr Strachey
mrs
Mrs Gaskell's Life
Mrs Gaskell’s Life
Mrs Thrale
post-Renaissance biographical criticism
post-Renaissance period
resartus
Richard III
sartor
Stanley's Life
Stanley’s Life
strachey
victorian
Victorian Biography
Virginia Woolf's Work
Virginia Woolf’s Work
Walton's Lives
Walton’s Lives
Whited Sepulchre
Product details
- ISBN 9781138283947
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1977, this book explores biography in the post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various aspects of biographical theory as expressed by practitioners and critics. The rest of the book is a detailed examination of specific works placed in chronological context — reflecting the author’s assertion that a work of biography is inseparable from the intellectual and cultural precepts of its age. Amongst the works examined are: Plutarch’s Lives, Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, and Johnson’s Life of Savage. This book will be of interest to students of literature and cultural history.
