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The eleven essays that make up this volume point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken in recent years. Among the subjects treated are the responsibilities of the authorized biographer, the practice of biography as it intersects ethnography, biographies of historians by historians, the eulogy as a biographical form, the challenge of rendering the uneventful life, and the biographical implications of a single piece of writing. The essays range from general discus sions of biographical aims to fresh examinations of particular biographical works. Despite the diversity of their topics, the authors suggest--if only inadvertently--why so many scholars and writers are taking a biographical approach to human experience.
The eleven essays that make up this volume point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken in recent years. Among the subjects treated are the responsibilities of the authorized biographer, the practice of biography as it intersects ethnography, biographies of historians by historians, the eulogy as a biographical form, the challenge of rendering the uneventful life, and the biographical implications of a single piece of writing. The essays range from general discus sions of biographical aims to fresh examinations of particular biographical works. Despite the diversity of their topics, the authors suggest--if only inadvertently--why so many scholars and writers are taking a biographical approach to human experience.
The "Real Life" Justin Kaplan Authorized Biography and Its Discontents Edward Mendelson English "Cliographers": A Preliminary Inquiry John Clive "Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners": Ethnobiographical Prospects James Clifford Johnson's Life of Savage: The Tranformation of a Genre Virginia Spencer Davidson Boswell and the Problem of Biography William C. Dowling Transcendental Biography: Carlyle and Emerson Kenneth Marc Harris Semiprivate Lives Jean Strouse Eulogy as Symbolic Biography: The Iconography of Revolutionary Leadership, 1776-1826 Michael T. Gilmore Thomas Shepard's America: The Biography of an Idea Andrew Delbanco Emerson in 1838: Essaying to Be Joel Porte
Daniel Aaron was Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University.
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