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First published in 1977, this book explores biography in the post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various aspects of biographical theory as expressed by practitioners and critics. The rest of the book is a detailed examination of specific works placed in chronological context — reflecting the author’s assertion that a work of biography is inseparable from the intellectual and cultural precepts of its age. Amongst the works examined are: Plutarch’s Lives, Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, and Johnson’s Life of Savage. This book will be of interest to students of literature and cultural history.

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

The text for this volume of poetry reproduces the first edition of 1917, allowing Hardy's poems to be read as he first gathered them and as the publishers first produced them. This edition also contains an introduction and a bibliography.

Biography of the Victorian author, Elizabeth Gaskell, sheds light on her life, literary successes, marriage and humanitarian work (cover flap).

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Biography

Biography

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision

Brief Lives

Brief Lives

Biography

Biography

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision

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