English Biography in the Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 11.11.2016 - 536 Seiten The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times. |
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II THE INFLUENCES WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF BIOGRAPHY | 62 |
III THE GROWTH OF REALISM IN THE PAMPHLETLIVES THE COLLECTED CHRONICLES OF CRIME THE INTIMATE MEMOIRS AND T... | 94 |
IV THE PRIVATE LIFE ELEMENT IN THE LIVES OF THE NORTHS | 165 |
V THE ADVANCE OF SCHOLARLY METHODS | 188 |
VI THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOGRAPHICAL LEXICOGRAPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 237 |
VII THE METHODS OF WILLIAM MASON IN THE MEMOIRS OF GRAY AND THE MEMOIRS OF WHITEHEAD | 293 |
VIII JOHNSONS LIVES OF THE POETS | 314 |
IX BOSWELLS LIFE OF JOHNSON | 407 |
X BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES MEMOIRS AND COLLECTIONS OF ANECDOTES | 477 |
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