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Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 provides a valuable examination of the ways in which eighteenth-century biographers depict literary figures and demonstrates how significant the impact could be when they veered away from the poetic melancholy of sensibility.
melancholy with me: to Pamela Clemit and her inspiring scholarship on William Godwin; to Simon Podmore and his deeply felt work on religious melancholy; to Felicity James for cheerful encouragement; and
This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Case studies of a number of significant authors reveal the 1790s as a time of biographical experimentation.
To Johnson, the alleged melancholy of Cowley and later of Thomas Gray is no more than self-indulgence. The melancholic who withdraws into a life of retirement should, in Johnson’s opinion, have sought relief in activity. Thus Johnson offers a compassionate portrait of Savage as a man who refused to give in to melancholy despite repeated
Jane Darcy, Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640–1816 | Romanticism"/> Menu. Search in: Advanced ... Julian North, The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 272. £55 hardback. 978 0 19 957198 7. Jane Darcy. Jul 2011 Romanticism.
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"This book offers an original account of the development of literary biography in the long eighteenth century and reveals different ways in which biographers probed the inner life through writers' melancholy.
