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English Biography in the Seventeenth Century

A Critical Survey
  • Allan Pritchard
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2005
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Examining a rich range of texts, English Biography in the Seventeenth Century is a survey of a field important for both literary and wider cultural reasons.

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Pritchard Allan :

Allan Pritchard is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

    vii
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    Introduction

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    1. The Growth of Biographical Writing

    9
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    2. Lives of the Protestant Saints

    30
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    3. Patterns in Religious Biography

    53
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    4. Izaak Walton’s Lives

    78
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    5. Lives of Public Figures

    91
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    6. Lives of Writers: Scientists and Antiquaries

    114
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    7. Lives of the Poets

    128
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    8. Brief Lives: Thomas Fuller and Anthony Wood

    145
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    9. Brief Lives: John Aubrey

    170
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    10. Biography as Family History

    199
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    11. Roger North: Lives of the Norths

    219
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    Notes

    243
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    Bibliography

    279
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    Index

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9781442686250
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320
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442686250
eBook ISBN: 9781442686250
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