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Biographical note
TANYA CALDWELL is a professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Time to Begin Anew: Dryden’s Georgics and Aeneis (Bucknell University Press) and Virgil Made English: The Decline of Classical Authority, and editor of Popular Plays by Women in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. She is working on a biography of Hannah Cowley."Rich and thought-provoking, <i>Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century </i>offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing."
- Amy Culley, author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration
"<i>Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century</i> offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form."
- Laura Rosenthal, author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century
"Rich and thought-provoking, <i>Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century </i>offers fresh perspectives on figures at the centre of studies of eighteenth-century life writing, including James Boswell and Frances Burney, and engages them in a fascinating dialogue with less prominent writers, such as Isabelle de Charrière and Alicia LeFanu. The essays are deeply knowledgeable, elegantly written, and pose important questions for studies of the genre. Collectively, they will be of significant value to scholars of eighteenth-century literature and life writing."
- Amy Culley, author of British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration
"<i>Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century</i> offers a rich and expansive collection of essays by accomplished scholars, demonstrating how underserved the topic of life writing has been in the field that, arguably, invented its modern form."
- Laura Rosenthal, author of Nightwalkers: Prostitute Narratives from the Eighteenth Century