Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
ISBN
9780820704821
0820704822
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
x, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
"By exploring the unprecedented boom in biographical writing in the late seventeenth century in England, Andrea Walkden demonstrates the wide-ranging influence of this new, visible, and affectively powerful form of public expression. She traces life-writing's relationship to emergent party politics, to the imaginative development of the early English novel, and to our contemporary use of biography in academic literary culture"--Provided by publisher.