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Whittemore, Reed, 1919-2012.

Whole Lives Shapers of Modern Biography / Reed Whittemore. - 1 online resource (1 online resource 184 pages) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Companion vol. to: Pure lives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

Carlyle and his great men -- Leslie Stephen's DNB and the Woolf rejoinders -- Sigmund Freud and his disciples -- American biography.

Open Access

Whittemore in this companion volume to Pure lives probes the often complex motives behind the relationships of modern biographers to their subjects. Examines among others, Thomas Carlyle, Leslie Stephen, Sigmund Freud, Leon Edel, and Richard Ellmann as biographers.

ISBN: 9781421434087

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Geschichte (1850-1960)
Geschichte (1800-1950)
Biographers--History.
Biography (as a literary form)
Geschiedschrijving.
Biografieën.
Biografie
Geschichte
Biografische Literatur
Biography as a literary form.
Biographers.
Biographes--Histoire.
Biographie (Genre litteraire)
Biographers--History.
Biography as a literary form.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Englisch.
USA.

Subjects--Index Terms: Biography

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: CT21 / .W52 2019