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Author Darcy, Jane

Title Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 / Jane Darcy
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Johnson, Melancholy and Early Literary Biography 1640-1791; 1 Early Literary Biographies: Walton's Donne to Sprat's Cowley; 2 Johnson, Melancholy and Biography; 3 Eighteenth-century Melancholy: Boswell and Cheyne, The English Malady; Part II: Melancholy and Biographical Experimentation around 1800; 4 Philosophical Biography (1): Godwin's Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; 5 Philosophical Biography (2): Currie's Life of Burns; 6 Religious Melancholy: Hayley's Life of Cowper; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book traces the development of literary biographyin the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the innerlife. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time ofbiographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to anineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English prose literature -- History and criticism
Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Melancholy in literature.
Depression, Mental, in literature.
Authors, English -- Psychology.
Literature and society -- England -- History
Biography.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Authors, English -- Biography
Authors, English -- Psychology
Biography as a literary form
Depression, Mental, in literature
English prose literature
Literature and society
Melancholy in literature
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137271099
1137271094