Whole Lives : Shapers of Modern Biography / / Reed Whittemore

• Autore: Whittemore Reed <1919-2012.>
• Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource 184 pages)
• Disciplina: 920/.02
• Soggetto topico: 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)
• Soggetto geografico: Englisch; United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Whole Lives
• ISBN: 0-8018-3548-8; 1-4214-3406-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524845203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II