| Description |
viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Harvard English studies ; 8
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Harvard English studies ; 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
"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 transformation 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. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Studies in biography. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978 (OCoLC)570168330 |
| ISBN |
0674846516 |
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9780674846517 |
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0674846524 (paperback) |
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9780674846524 (paperback) |
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