English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey
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1. Verfasser: Pritchard, Allan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c2005
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-287) and index
The growth of biographical writing. -- Lives of the Protestant saints. -- Patterns in religious biography. -- Izaak Walton's lives. -- Lives of public figures. -- Lives of writers: scientists and antiquaries. -- Lives of the poets. -- Brief lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood. -- Brief lives: John Aubrey. -- Biography as family history. -- Roger North: lives of the Norths
"Although biography is one of today's most flourishing literary genres, its early history has attracted much less attention than that of other forms, a neglect that is especially apparent in the case of the formative period of English biography, the seventeenth century. This new work by Allan Pritchard fills the scholarly void by providing a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of this period's biographical writings."
"After charting the growth of seventeenth-century biographical writing, Pritchard explores the ways in which traditional forms of religious biography and lives of princes and other secular figures were adapted to, and transformed by, the crises and revolutions of the period. He then considers the development of less traditional biographical types and analyses the emergence of a 'new biography,' concerned essentially with individuality and with private as well as public life."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (297 p.)
ISBN:0802038891
1442610336
1442686251
9780802038890
9781442610330
9781442686250

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