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UNINA9910455800003321 |
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Pritchard Allan |
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Titolo |
English biography in the seventeenth century : a critical survey / / Allan Pritchard |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-1033-6 |
1-4426-8625-1 |
1-282-02900-2 |
9786612029004 |
1-4426-7449-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biography as a literary form |
Electronic books. |
England Biography History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Growth of Biographical Writing -- 2. Lives of the Protestant Saints -- 3. Patterns in Religious Biography -- 4. Izaak Walton's Lives -- 5. Lives of Public Figures -- 6. Lives of Writers: Scientists and Antiquaries -- 7. Lives of the Poets -- 8. Brief Lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood -- 9. Brief Lives: John Aubrey -- 10. Biography as Family History -- 11. Roger North: Lives of the Norths -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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