Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
| Author: | J. Darcy | ISBN: | 9781137271099 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | June 25, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | J. Darcy |
| ISBN: | 9781137271099 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | June 25, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
