After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes

by Robert Fraser and Robert Fraser

Book Overview

Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030351688
• ISBN13: 9783030351687
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"