English Biography in the Eighteenth Century
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English Biography in the Eighteenth Century

  1. 536 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

English Biography in the Eighteenth Century

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. I. INTRODUCTORY: LIFE-WRITING BEFORE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  4. II. THE INFLUENCES WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF BIOGRAPHY
  5. III. THE GROWTH OF REALISM IN THE PAMPHLET-LIVES, THE COLLECTED CHRONICLES OF CRIME, THE INTIMATE MEMOIRS, AND THE ROGUE-LIVES
  6. IV. THE “PRIVATE LIFE” ELEMENT IN THE LIVES OF THE NORTHS
  7. V. THE ADVANCE OF SCHOLARLY METHODS
  8. VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOGRAPHICAL LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  9. VII. THE METHODS OF WILLIAM MASON IN THE MEMOIRS OF GRAY AND THE MEMOIRS OF WHITEHEAD
  10. VIII. JOHNSON’S LIVES OF THE POETS
  11. IX. BOSWELL’S LIFE OF JOHNSON
  12. X. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, MEMOIRS AND COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES
  13. INDEX