| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Aperçus: histories texts cultures |
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Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Art of Writing Lives / Tanya Caldwell -- Dr. Johnson's Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale': Hester Lynch Piozzi's Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LLD / Lisa Berglund -- The Education of Alexander d'Arblay: "The Idol of the World" / Peter Sabor -- Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D'Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography / Marilyn Francus -- The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: 'Written by Herself' / Victoria Warren -- Clashes of conversations in James Boswell's Hebrides and Life of Johnson and 'My Firm Regard to Authenticity / James J. Caudle -- Charles Burney's Handel Reconsidered / Todd Gilman |
| Summary |
"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 privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D'Arblay's son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney's realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography"--Publisher's description |
| Analysis |
memoir, autobiography, Burney, Boswell, life writing, James Boswell, Frances Burney, Hester Lynn Piozzi, Alexander d'Arblay, Alicia LeFanu, Charles Burney, Isabelle d'Charriere, William Godwin, family, 18th century, Samuel Johnson, biography, Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Male Figures, Females Figures, Culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form -- History -- 18th century
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Autobiography -- History -- 18th century
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Autobiography in literature.
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Biography in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY.
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Autobiography
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Autobiography in literature
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Biography
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Biography as a literary form
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Biography in literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Biography -- History and criticism
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caldwell, Tanya, 1969- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019049028 |
| ISBN |
9781684482306 |
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1684482305 |
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