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James Parton

American author

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approach to biography

  • Giorgio Vasari
    In biography: 19th century

    One professional biographer, James Parton, published competent, well-researched narratives, such as his lives of Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson, but they brought him thin rewards and are today outmoded. In France, biography was turned inward, to romantic introspection, a trend introduced by Étienne Pivert de Senancour’s Obermann (1804).…

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