Essays in eighteenth-century biography.
By: Edited with an introd. by Philip B. Daghlian.
Contributors: Daghlian, Philip B., ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Eighteenth century -- Biography -- History and criticism; Literary form -- History -- 18th century; Civilization, Modern -- 18th century; Biography as a literary form
Notes: "Papers ... delivered at Indiana University on March 17 and 18, 1967, at a conference on biography as an art."
Table of contents: title: Literary form in factual narrative: the example of Boswell's Johnson, by R. W. Rader.; title: The uses of autobiography in the eighteenth century, by D. Greene.; title: How much should a biographer tell? Some eighteenth-century views, by J. L. Clifford.; title: Selected bibliography, by R. D. Kelly (p. 96-110); title: A reading course in autobiography, by D. Greene (p. 111-117)