Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
Description
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanModern19th CenturySemiotics & TheorySocial Science18th CenturyLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsAnthropologyCultural & SocialRenaissance
2013Book
Author(s)Jane Darcy
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137271082
LanguageEnglish
