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Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816/ Jane Darcy.
Author:	Darcy, Jane.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource (268 pages)
Subject:	Authors, English - Biography -
ISBN:	9781137271099 (electronic bk.)

Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
Darcy, Jane.

Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816[electronic resource] /Jane Darcy. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (268 pages)

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Johnson, Melancholy and Early Literary Biography 1640-1791; 1 Early Literary Biographies: Walton's Donne to Sprat's Cowley; 2 Johnson, Melancholy and Biography; 3 Eighteenth-century Melancholy: Boswell and Cheyne, The English Malady; Part II: Melancholy and Biographical Experimentation around 1800; 4 Philosophical Biography (1): Godwin's Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; 5 Philosophical Biography (2): Currie's Life of Burns; 6 Religious Melancholy: Hayley's Life of Cowper; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

This book traces the development of literary biographyin the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the innerlife. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time ofbiographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to anineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.

ISBN: 9781137271099 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

239824
Authors, English
--BiographyIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR756.B56 / D37 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9

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