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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524845203321

Autore

Whittemore Reed <1919-2012.>

Titolo

Whole Lives : Shapers of Modern Biography / / Reed Whittemore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press

ISBN

0-8018-3548-8

1-4214-3406-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource 184 pages)

Disciplina

920/.02

Soggetti

Geschichte (1850-1960)

Geschichte (1800-1950)

Biographers - History

Biography as a literary form

Geschiedschrijving

Biografieën

Biografie

Geschichte

Biografische Literatur

Biographers

Biographes - Histoire

Biographie (Genre litteraire)

History

Englisch

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Companion vol. to: Pure lives.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Carlyle and his great men -- Leslie Stephen's DNB and the Woolf rejoinders -- Sigmund Freud and his disciples -- American biography.

Sommario/riassunto

Whittemore in this companion volume to Pure lives probes the often complex motives behind the relationships of modern biographers to their subjects. Examines among others, Thomas Carlyle, Leslie Stephen, Sigmund Freud, Leon Edel, and Richard Ellmann as biographers.