TY - BOOK ID - 86073048 TI - Writing lives in the eighteenth century PY - 2020 SN - 1684482305 1684482267 1684482275 PB - Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Autobiography KW - Autobiography in literature. KW - Biography in literature. KW - History KW - Europe KW - History and criticism. KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Autobiographies KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography KW - Authorship KW - Prose literature KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - memoir, autobiography, Burney, Boswell, life writing, James Boswell, Frances Burney, Hester Lynn Piozzi, Alexander d'Arblay, Alicia LeFanu, Charles Burney, Isabelle d'Charriere, William Godwin, family, 18th century, Samuel Johnson, biography, Tanya Caldwell, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, Male Figures, Females Figures, Culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86073048 AB - Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures—returning to the Boswell and Burney circle—but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging of biographical modes. The contributors reconsider the processes of hero making in the beginning phases of a culture of celebrity. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material “from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs,” each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy. New work on Frances Burney D’Arblay’s son, Alexander, as revealed through letters; on Isabelle de Charriere; on Hester Thrale Piozzi; and on Alicia LeFanu and Frances Burney’s realignment of family biography extend current conversations about eighteenth century biography and autobiography. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. ER -