Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816

Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
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Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781137271099
ISBN-13 : 1137271094
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Download or read book Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 written by J. Darcy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.


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