Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Literary Biography
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Literary Biography
Editor: Bradford, Richard
Publication Year: 2019
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 978-1-11-889629-7
Category: Language & Literature - Literature
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries.
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Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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