Eminent Victorians | Strategic Irony and Lytton Strachey's Contribution to Biography
In the following essay, Hutch argues that Strachey greatly influenced ‘‘interest in possible connections between psychology and biography’’ in the twentieth century.
The response of biographers to modern psychological science and discourse has been a topic of considerable interest to scholars since World War II. Halting efforts to use psychological ideas in lifewriting were made early in the century, but they proliferated in the postwar era. Well known is the work of John Garraty on the interrelations between biography and psychology, and that of Leon Edel on the use of psychoanalytic ideas, especially the idea of ‘‘transference,’’ in the art of biography. The language of scientific psychology, however, must be recognized as erected...
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