English biography in the seventeenth century : a critical survey /
"Although biography is one of today's most flourishing literary genres, its early history has attracted much less attention than that of other forms, a neglect that is especially apparent in the case of the formative period of English biography, the seventeenth century. This new work by Al...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
2005
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "Although biography is one of today's most flourishing literary genres, its early history has attracted much less attention than that of other forms, a neglect that is especially apparent in the case of the formative period of English biography, the seventeenth century. This new work by Allan Pritchard fills the scholarly void by providing a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of this period's biographical writings." "After charting the growth of seventeenth-century biographical writing, Pritchard explores the ways in which traditional forms of religious biography and lives of princes and other secular figures were adapted to, and transformed by, the crises and revolutions of the period. He then considers the development of less traditional biographical types and analyses the emergence of a 'new biography, ' concerned essentially with individuality and with private as well as public life."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442686250 1442686251 1282029002 9781282029002 9786612029004 6612029005 1442674490 9781442674493 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
