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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Johnson, Melancholy and Early Literary Biography 1640–1791
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Melancholy and Biographical Experimentation around 1800
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'One of the highlights of the book is the originality of its examination of religious melancholy in the period and how biographers negotiated the politics of this potentially explosive issue. It is refreshing to see work on melancholy give such scope to this important contemporary issue... Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 provides a valuable examination of the ways in which eighteenth-century biographers depict literary figures and demonstrates how significant the impact could be when they veered away from the poetic melancholy of sensibility. As such, Darcy's book is a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on the genre of literary biography and the posthumous publication of literary letters.' Anita O'Connell, The BARS Review
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816
Authors: Jane Darcy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271099
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27108-2Published: 27 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44455-7Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27109-9Published: 25 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 255
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary History