Author: J. Darcy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1137271094

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.