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Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 2013th Edition
Author(s): J. Darcy (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: June 25, 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: B00DQT2NOI
- ISBN-13: 9781137271099
Book Description
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.
