English Biography in the Eighteenth Century / / Mark Longaker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Longaker, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1931
• 出版年: 2016
• 版: Reprint 2016
• 語言: English
• 實物描述: 1 online resource (520 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; I. INTRODUCTORY: LIFE-WRITING BEFORE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY --; II. THE INFLUENCES WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF BIOGRAPHY --; III. THE GROWTH OF REALISM IN THE PAMPHLET-LIVES, THE COLLECTED CHRONICLES OF CRIME, THE INTIMATE MEMOIRS, AND THE ROGUE-LIVES --; IV. THE “PRIVATE LIFE” ELEMENT IN THE LIVES OF THE NORTHS --; V. THE ADVANCE OF SCHOLARLY METHODS --; VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOGRAPHICAL LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY --; VII. THE METHODS OF WILLIAM MASON IN THE MEMOIRS OF GRAY AND THE MEMOIRS OF WHITEHEAD --; VIII. JOHNSON’S LIVES OF THE POETS --; IX. BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON --; X. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, MEMOIRS AND COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES --; INDEX
• 總結: The growth and maturity of Life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.
• 格式: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803709; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803709
• 訪問: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Longaker.

The growth and maturity of Life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.