| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Skip Brack: A Tribute from a Colleague and Friend; Print Borne and Born Digital: Considering Careers, My Father's and My Own; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Textual Studies; Chapter One: Collecting Samuel Johnson and His Circle; Chapter Two: Some Notes on the Textual Fidelity of Eighteenth-Century Reprint Editions; Chapter Three: Learning from Don Bilioso's Adventures; Chapter Four: The Solicitation in Two Acts; II: Biographical Studies; Chapter Five: Samuel Parr's Epitaph for Johnson, His Library, and His Unwritten Biography. |
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Chapter Six: Samuel Johnson's Shakespearean ExitChapter Seven: Searching for the Invisible Man; Chapter Eight: Alceste: Tobias Smollett's Early Career; Chapter Nine: Gender, State Power, and the Rhetoric of the Funeral Sermons for Queen Mary II; Chapter Ten: Swift's Politics Reconsidered; Chapter Eleven: The Work of a Professional Biographer; Part III: Edition; Chapter Twelve: Frances Burney on Hester Thrale Piozzi; Coda; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors. |
| Summary |
Lives are known textually, and this collection of new essays explores, corrects, and advances contemporary knowledge of historical lives and texts, particularly of the British eighteenth century. Complementing the essays is a complete translation and critical edition of a life of Hester Thrale Piozzi written in French by Frances Burney. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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Criticism, Textual.
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Criticism, Textual. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Swan, Jesse G., editor.
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Brack, O. M, honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Editing lives. Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2014] 9781611485400 (DLC) 2013039291 (OCoLC)858353999 |
| ISBN |
161148541X (electronic book) |
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9781611485417 (electronic book) |
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9781611485400 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1611485401 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40023193619 |
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