Melancholy and literary biography, 1640-1816
Auteur :
Darcy, J.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349444557
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.