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.
作者简介
Jane Darcy teaches English at University College London, UK, where she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.