Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816

Darcy, J.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349444557

DOI: 10.1057/9781137271099

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 255