Studies in Biography

Daniel Aaron

    The "Real Life"
    Justin Kaplan
    Authorized Biography and Its Discontents
    Edward Mendelson
    English "Cliographers": A Preliminary Inquiry
    John Clive
    "Hanging Up Looking Glasses at Odd Corners": Ethnobiographical Prospects
    James Clifford
    Johnson's Life of Savage: The Tranformation of a Genre
    Virginia Spencer Davidson
    Boswell and the Problem of Biography
    William C. Dowling
    Transcendental Biography: Carlyle and Emerson
    Kenneth Marc Harris
    Semiprivate Lives
    Jean Strouse
    Eulogy as Symbolic Biography: The Iconography of Revolutionary Leadership, 1776-1826
    Michael T. Gilmore
    Thomas Shepard's America: The Biography of an Idea
    Andrew Delbanco
    Emerson in 1838: Essaying to Be
    Joel Porte

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Daniel Aaron is Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University.