Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137271082)

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.

Author: J. Darcy
ISBN-10: 1137271086
ISBN-13: 9781137271082
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2013
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.50w x 0.80d