Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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