LEADER 03976nam 2200565 450 001 9910811390603321 005 20211021211249.0 010 $a1-68448-230-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9781684482306 035 $a(CKB)4100000011358116 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6269549 035 $a(DE-B1597)589525 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781684482306 035 $a(OCoLC)1262307883 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011358116 100 $a20201124d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWriting lives in the eighteenth century /$fedited by Tanya M. Caldwell 210 1$aLewisberg, Pennsylvania :$cBucknell University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (251 pages) 225 1 $aAperc?us: histories texts cultures 311 0 $a1-68448-226-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Art of Writing Lives --$t1. Dr. Johnson?s Apology for the Married Life of Hester Thrale: Hester Lynch Piozzi?s Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. --$t2. The Education of Alexander d?Arblay: The ?Idol of the World? --$t3. Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia LeFanu, Frances Burney D?Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography --$t4. The Life of Isabelle de Charrière: ?Written by Herself ? --$t5. Clashes of Conversations in James Boswell?s Hebrides and Life of Johnson and ?My Firm Regard to Authenticity? --$t6. Charles Burney?s Handel Reconsidered --$tBibliography --$tNotes on Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures?returning to the Boswell and Burney circle?but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material ?from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,? each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D?Arblay?s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney?s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. 410 0$aAperc?us (Lewisburg, Pa.) 606 $aBiography as a literary form$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAutobiography$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAutobiography in literature 606 $aBiography in literature 607 $aEurope$vBiography$xHistory and criticism 610 $amemoir, autobiography, Burney, Boswell, life writing, James Boswell, Frances Burney, Hester Lynn Piozzi, Alexander d'Arblay, Alicia LeFanu, Charles Burney, Isabelle d'Charriere, William Godwin, family, 18th century, Samuel Johnson, biography, Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Male Figures, Females Figures, Culture. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form$xHistory 615 0$aAutobiography$xHistory 615 0$aAutobiography in literature. 615 0$aBiography in literature. 676 $a808.06692 702 $aCaldwell$b Tanya$f1969- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811390603321 996 $aWriting lives in the eighteenth century$94103974 997 $aUNINA