...Josiah C. Russell Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL BIOGRAPHY By JOSIAH C. RUSSELL Although the study of the problems of medieval biography is a very old subject, it has...

...James G. McManaway E. K. Chambers. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Pp. 80. $2.00. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 106 Rhs Sources for a Biography of Shakespeare. By E. K. CHAMBERS.Ox- ford :At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Pp. 80. $2.00...

... Yak University Biography of a War Novel: Zola’s “La Dt2iacle.” By HELENLARUE RUFENER.New York: King’s Crown Press, 1946. Pp. x + 126. $2.75. The thought must have occurred to more than one observer that the history of the last decade could be written using Zola’s titles...

...James Gindin Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 TOWARD LITERARY BIOGRAPHY’ By JAMES GINDIN Within just the last decade, a proliferation of thoughtful and sensi- tive books concerning Hardy has considerably deepened the level...

...Chris R. Vanden Bossche Fred Kaplan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. 614 pp. $35.00. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 CHRIS R. VANDEN BOSSCHE 303 Thomas Carlyle: A Biography. By FKEUKAPLAN. Ithaca: Cornell University...

... well for com- parison, Mr. Stoll has written a book that will long remain among the most thoughtful and sound of the many critical works on Shakespeare. ROBERTADGER LAW University of Texas The Art of Biography in Eighteenth Century England...

... of Fielding and of his age. MARTINC. BATTESTIN University of Virginia George Eliot: A Biography. By GORDONS. HAICHT.New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. xvi + 616 pp. $12.50. On the face of it, this is a wonderfully objective...

...Godfrey Davies Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 1 Among the papers that came to me as literary executor to Sir Charles Firth were notes for a lecture on biography and history. I saw these notes in 1914 and then urged their revision and completion for publication. Sir...

... Hunt, who was a Clarkean idol, will figure importantly in such a history. Mr. Altick‘s pene- trating observations will be useful to the historian. JAMES R. CALDWELL University of California Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography...

... Critical Biography. By AUSTINWRIGHT. Chicago : Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1950. Pp. ix + 265. $4.00. Joseph Spence seems an almost perfect candidate for the literary historian in search of a minor figure who reflects significantly the intellectual and artistic preoccupations...

... of Ronsard po2te de l’amour. SAMUELF. WILL Indiana University nte Embattled Philosopher: A Biography of Denis Diderot. By LESTERG. CRDCKER.East Lansing: Michigan State College Press, 1954. Pp. 442. $6.50. Two Diderot Studies...

...George J. Becker R. H. Super. Washington Square, New York: New York University Press, 1954. Pp. xv + 654. $7.50. Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 REVIEWS Walter Savage Landor: A Biography. By R. H. SUPER.Washington Square, New York...

... may see more clearly than ever before how necessary was the mask of irony to cover the raw nerves and wounded spirit of a great artist. The evidence is in this biography ; yet, in spite of its excellence, The Ordeal of George Meredith is not entirely satisfactory. The ordeal...

... as a contrarian impulse, a radically different way of thinking about the canon that has become second nature. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 biography memoir D. H. Lawrence Geoff Dyer Rewriting the Literary Past: D. H. Lawrence and Geoff Dyer s...

... to be,” as he remarks, “a handy man with the spade.” He divides his book into two sections. The first is a critical exami- nation of the biographies of Birch, Derrick, Johnson, Malone, and Scott, and of the biographical work of the last hundred years; this section is concluded with an appendix...

... University Ben Jomon: His Life and Work. By ROSALINDMILES. London and New York: Routledge 8c Kegan Paul, 1986. xiv + 306 pp. $55.00. We have long needed a biography of Ben Jonson that would gather into a coherent whole the wealth of information inconveniently scattered through the eleven...

... by the very nature of the materials with which the author has had to work. Could it be that the subject of Shakespearean biography has attracted not only the odd but the second-rate? Moreover, the book is chiefly vulnerable only to objections that reflect each reader’s ideals about how biography...

..., his achievements as an intellectual and a scholar whose knowledge has perhaps never been equaled, are all parts of the unusual attraction he has exerted upon readers and writers. As a result, many are the Leopardi biographies available to us-all of them accurate, and at the same time all...

... mean that in a good way. Marianne Moore once accused readers with an indecorous interest in Emily Dickinson’s biography as indulging in a “philistine interest” (150). Modern-day philistines, reflecting their biblical namesakes (Joshua 13:3, 1 Samuel 6:17), are those who are anti-intellectual...