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100	1		_aShelston, Alan.
245	1	0	_aBiography / _cAlan Shelston.
260			_aLondon : _bMethuen ; _aNew York : _bdistributed by Harper & Row, _c1977.
300			_a82 p. ; _c19 cm.
490	0		_aThe Critical idiom ; no. 34
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography: p. [75]-77.
505			_aGeneral Editor’s Preface; Prefatory note; 1 Some problems of the form 2 Exemplum and anecdote 3 Author and subject 4 Public legends: private lives 5 Truth of fact and truth of fiction; Bibliography; Index
520			_aFirst published in 1977, this book explores biography in the post-Renaissance period and investigates some of the problems implicit in this literary form. The introduction considers various aspects of biographical theory as expressed by practitioners and critics. The rest of the book is a detailed examination of specific works placed in chronological context — reflecting the author’s assertion that a work of biography is inseparable from the intellectual and cultural precepts of its age. Amongst the works examined are: Plutarch’s Lives, Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, and Johnson’s Life of Savage. This book will be of interest to students of literature and cultural history.
650		0	_aBiography.
650		0	_aEnglish prose literature _xHistory and criticism.
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