Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816

By Jane Darcy

Book Overview

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation. Reaction against philosophical biography led to a nineteenth-century taste for romanticized lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349444553
• ISBN13: 9781349444557
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"