English biography in the seventeenth century : a critical survey /
"After charting the growth of seventeenth-century biographical writing, Pritchard explores the ways in which traditional forms of religious biography and lives of princes and other secular figures were adapted to, and transformed by, the crises and revolutions of the period. He then considers t...
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
©2005.
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Taula de continguts:
- The growth of biographical writing.
- Lives of the Protestant saints.
- Patterns in religious biography.
- Izaak Walton's lives.
- Lives of public figures.
- Lives of writers: scientists and antiquaries.
- Lives of the poets.
- Brief lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood.
- Brief lives: John Aubrey.
- Biography as family history.
- Roger North: lives of the Norths.