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Contributors:

   Edgar Johnson

Publisher:

   Stackpole Sons

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1937
Subjects:   Biography As A Literary Form, Great Britain--Biography
Table of contents
THE CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 21
I. TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF BIOGRAPHY 35
Chiaroscurists of Souls
A Rapid-Motion Panorama
Two Princes of the Church
II. A SHEAF OF SIX BIOGRAPHIES 61
On Understanding the Past
Blood and Smoke
Chancellor of Utopia
Dark Reflective Glass
Pure Crystal Water
Cloistral Images
Without Lilies and Roses
III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PERSONALITY 97
17th and 18th Centuries
Pitfalls for Sincerity
Favorite of Heaven
Lurid Stage
Whip-Syllabub of Wit
Roman Profile
Periods and Self Portrayals
IV. MEMOIR AND DIARY 123
17th Century
Their Character and Flavor
Featherwit and Cavalier
Regicides and Puritans
Pepys the Man
The Model Virtuoso
The Color of the Times
V. HEYDAY OF THE LETTER-WRITERS 155
The Most Personal Art
Two Ladies, a Dean and Some Others
VI. HEYDAY OF THE LETTER-WRITERS (Continued) 177
Eighteenth Century Ideal
Class of Fashion
Elegy and Burlesque
Twilight Landscape
VII. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY APOGEE 207
The Doctor as Biographer
The Mystery of Mr. Boswell
Eighteenth Century Lion
Flemish Portrait
VIII. ROMANTIC LETTER-WRITERS 237
Journey to the Inner World
Anger and Pride
The Love of God and Ill
Pictures of a World
IX. TRANSITIONAL MISCELLANY 273
Citizen of the World
Elia in Laughter and Flight
The Governing Classes
X. TOWARD VICTORIANISM 305
Prologue to an Age
The Wizard of the North
Darkness over Haworth
XI. TWO MONUMENTS OF THE LIFE-AND-LETTERS METHOD 331
The Inhizitable Boz
Child in Armor
XII. TWO NINETEENTH CENTURY EDUCATIONS 357
New Lamps for Old
'A Reasoning Machine'
'The Loneliness Was Very Greae ,
Sereneness and Defeat
XIII. VICTORIAN SUNDOWN 387
Nineteenth Century Waste Land
Ikon of a Prophet
Epilogue to an Age
XIV. TURN OF THE CENTURY (Autobiography) 415
The Phooka
Pilgrim of Sensibility
Twilight of an Edueatlon
XV. TURN OF THE CENTURY (Biography) 441
The Varied Stream
Tory Pioneer
Journalist of Art
Conflict with a Dying Age
XVI. HERE AND NOW 471
Kaleidoxcope of Forces
Realms of Romance
The Deeper Springs
Wit in the Archives
XVII. ART AND IRONY 503
Declaration of Independence
Classic-Romantic Ironist
Homage to Two Queens
Sand and Gold
XVIII. MACHINERY, STRUGGLE, AND LIGHT 527
Keys to Our Times
Disciple of the Dark God
The Educational Dawn
EPILOG 569
Pageant of the Past
The Future of Biography
NOTES 583
INDEX 587
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