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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century / ed. by Tanya M. Caldwell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aperçus: Histories Texts CulturesPublisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 2 b-w images, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781684482306
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.06/692 23
LOC classification:
  • CT21 .W77 2020
  • CT21 .W77 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Art of Writing Lives -- 1. Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- 2. The Education of Alexander d’Arblay: The “Idol of the World” -- 3. Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D’Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography -- 4. The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: “Written by Herself ” -- 5. Clashes of Conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and “My Firm Regard to Authenticity” -- 6. Charles Burney’s Handel Reconsidered -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Art of Writing Lives -- 1. Dr. Johnson’s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale: Hester Lynch Piozzi’s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. -- 2. The Education of Alexander d’Arblay: The “Idol of the World” -- 3. Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D’Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography -- 4. The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: “Written by Herself ” -- 5. Clashes of Conversations in James Boswell’s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and “My Firm Regard to Authenticity” -- 6. Charles Burney’s Handel Reconsidered -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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