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Studies in Biography, a volume in the series Harvard English Studies, contains eleven essays which point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken since the nineteenth century.

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The "Real Life" Justin Kaplan Authorized Biography and Its Discontents Edward Mendelson English "Cliographers": A Preliminary Inquiry John Clive "Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners": Ethnobiographical Prospects James Clifford Johnson's Life of Savage: The Tranformation of a Genre Virginia Spencer Davidson Boswell and the Problem of Biography William C. Dowling Transcendental Biography: Carlyle and Emerson Kenneth Marc Harris Semiprivate Lives Jean Strouse Eulogy as Symbolic Biography: The Iconography of Revolutionary Leadership, 1776-1826 Michael T. Gilmore Thomas Shepard's America: The Biography of an Idea Andrew Delbanco Emerson in 1838: Essaying to Be Joel Porte

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/1978
      ISBN13: 9780674846524, 978-0674846524
      ISBN10: 0674846524

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Studies in Biography, a volume in the series Harvard English Studies, contains eleven essays which point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken since the nineteenth century.

      Table of Contents
      The "Real Life" Justin Kaplan Authorized Biography and Its Discontents Edward Mendelson English "Cliographers": A Preliminary Inquiry John Clive "Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners": Ethnobiographical Prospects James Clifford Johnson's Life of Savage: The Tranformation of a Genre Virginia Spencer Davidson Boswell and the Problem of Biography William C. Dowling Transcendental Biography: Carlyle and Emerson Kenneth Marc Harris Semiprivate Lives Jean Strouse Eulogy as Symbolic Biography: The Iconography of Revolutionary Leadership, 1776-1826 Michael T. Gilmore Thomas Shepard's America: The Biography of an Idea Andrew Delbanco Emerson in 1838: Essaying to Be Joel Porte

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