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A companion to literary biography / edited by Richard Bradford.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Wiley)
Other Authors: Bradford, Richard, 1957- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Subjects:
Authors, English > Biography > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English prose literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Biography as a literary form.
Authors > Biography > Authorship.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The History of Literary Biography
  • The Emergence of Literary Biography
  • Lasting First Impressions: On the Origins of Ambivalent Attitudes to the Lake Poets, Cockney Keats, and Satanic Shelley
  • How to Be an Author: Victorian Literary Biography c. 1830-1880
  • Un/making the Victorians: Literary Biography, 1880-1930
  • "Aerial Creations of the Poets"? New Biography and the BBC in the 1930s
  • Literary biography in the twentieth century
  • Part II. Issues, Theories, and Methodologies
  • Ethics and literary biography
  • Concerns about facts and form in literary biography
  • Women with a theory: feminism and biography
  • The role of diaries in the development of literary biography
  • Blurred Boundaries: Literary Biography, Literary Autobiography, and Evidence
  • Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers
  • Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender
  • "The Man's Life in the Letters of the Man": Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography
  • J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Style in Autobiography
  • The Experience of Archives: Richmal Crompton and Others
  • Disappearing into the Front Page: The Case of Salman Rushdie and the Postmodern Memoir
  • Evidence and invention: the materials of literary biography
  • Mustabeens and mightabeens: the unknowability of English Renaissance playwrights
  • Literary biography, literary studies, and theory: an uneasy relationship
  • Estate management: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
  • Part III. Classic cases
  • Chaucer
  • Writing Shakespeare's Life
  • John Donne
  • Jonathan Swift
  • Life and death in the literary biographies of Pope and his circle
  • Richardson and Fielding
  • Biography as myth-making: obfuscation and invention in Victorian and Post-Victorian literary biography
  • Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling
  • Would the real Mr. Eliot please stand up?
  • After Ellmann: the state of Joyce biography
  • Literary biography and the de-canonization of Amy Lowell
  • Reviewing the lives and works of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis.

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