Whole Lives : Shapers of Modern Biography /
Reed Whittemore.
- 1 online resource (196 pages).
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Companion vol. to: Pure lives.
Carlyle and his great men -- Leslie Stephen's DNB and the Woolf rejoinders -- Sigmund Freud and his disciples -- American biography.
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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.
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