English biography
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- Title
- English biography
- Publication year listed
- 1916
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English biography
Author: Dunn, Waldo Hilary, 1882-1969
Year: 1916
Beginnings of the biographical impulse: Latin period (690-1066 A.D.) -- The period of transition and preparation (1066-1500) -- English verse lives. -- The period of new beginnings in English (1500-1700) -- The rise of modern English biography - the eighteenth century. -- The rise of English autobiography (1720-1799) -- Biography in the nineteenth century. -- Autobiography in the nineteenth century. -- Problems and tendencies of the present. -- A comparative view. -- English biography as literature. -- In conclusion. -- Appendix: I. Biographical compilations in Latin. II. Biographical compilations in English (to the end of the eighteenth century) III. English autobiographies. IV. Shakespeare in biography. -- Index
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