Author: Whittemore, Reed
Title: Pure Lives. The Early Biographers
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1988). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, xi,159 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Plutarch & the Dream of Virtue; Hagiography & Aelfric; Three Italians: Machiavelli, Cellini,and Vasari; Chronicles, Holinshead, Shakespeare - and Breaking Out; Samuel Johnson; - And the Boswell Connection; Laurence Sterne: An Eighteenth-Century Wild Card; Appendix: Johnson on Biography; Primary Readings.

Keywords: Literary History, Biography, Biographers, Literature, Criticism, , , ,