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Whole Lives Shapers of Modern Biography / Reed Whittemore.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Whittemore, Reed, 1919-2012.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Geschichte (1850-1960).
Geschichte (1800-1950).
Biographers--History.
Biographers.
Biography as a literary form.
Geschiedschrijving.
Biografieën.
Biographes--Histoire.
Biographes.
Biographie (Genre litteraire).
Englisch.
United States.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource 184 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Carlyle and his great men
Leslie Stephen's DNB and the Woolf rejoinders
Sigmund Freud and his disciples
American biography.
Notes:
Companion vol. to: Pure lives.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-8018-3548-8
1-4214-3406-7
OCLC:
1124075169

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