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Title Writing lives in the eighteenth century / edited by Tanya M. Caldwell.

Publication Info. Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Aperçus: histories texts cultures
Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D'Arblay's son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney's realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography"--Publisher's description.
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Subject Biography as a literary form -- History -- 18th century.
Biography as a literary form.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Europe -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Europe.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Autobiography -- History -- 18th century.
Autobiography.
Autobiography in literature.
Autobiography in literature.
Biography in literature.
Biography in literature.
Biography.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Caldwell, Tanya, 1969- editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9781684482269 1684482267 9781684482276 1684482275 (DLC) 2019049028 (OCoLC)1139647994
ISBN 9781684482306 (electronic book)
1684482305 (electronic book)
9781684482269
1684482267
9781684482276
1684482275