{"product_id":"studies-in-biography-9780674846524","title":"Studies in Biography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStudies 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403612332375,"sku":"9780674846524","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674846524.jpg?v=1730483985","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/studies-in-biography-9780674846524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}