Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century /

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century / / ed. by Tanya M. Caldwell.

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Berglund, Lisa,
Caldwell, Tanya M.,
Caudle, James J.,
Francus, Marilyn,
Gilman, Todd,
Sabor, Peter,
Warren, Victoria,
HerausgeberIn:
Caldwell, Tanya M.,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 b-w images, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Art of Writing Lives
  • 1. Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
  • 2. The Education of Alexander d’Arblay: The “Idol of the World”
  • 3. Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D’Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography
  • 4. The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: “Written by Herself ”
  • 5. Clashes of Conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and “My Firm Regard to Authenticity”
  • 6. Charles Burney’s Handel Reconsidered
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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