Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
| By: | J. Darcy |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137271082 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137271099 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.