A Companion to Literary Biography by Bradford, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The History of Literary Biography

1 The Emergence of Literary Biography

References

2 Lasting First Impressions: On the Origins of Ambivalent Attitudes to the Lake Poets, Cockney Keats, and Satanic Shelley

De Quincey, the Lake Poets’ Delinquent Biographer Keats, the Little Cockney Chancer Shelley Lovers Conclusion References Further Reading

3 How to Be an Author: Victorian Literary Biography c. 1830–1880

Victorian Literary Biography and the Birth of the Industrial‐Age Author Lockhart’s Life of Scott (1837–1838) Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens (1872–1874) Conclusion References

4 Un/making the Victorians: Literary Biography, 1880–1930

Making Victorian Biography: Edition Collecting Lives: Biographical Series Monuments and Supplements: The Dictionary of National Biography Unmaking Victorian Biography: Modernist Caricatures References

5 “Aerial Creations of the Poets”? New Biography and the BBC in the 1930s

References Online Database Further Reading

6 Literary Biography in the Twentieth Century

References

Part II: Issues, Theories, and Methodologies

7 Ethics and Literary Biography

What is a “Good” Literary Biography? Who and What is a Good Literary Subject? Literary Subjects on their Biographers Literary Biographers—The Ethical Charges, and the Defense References

8 Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography

References

9 Women with a Theory: Feminism and Biography

Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Writing a Woman Writer’s Life Granite and Rainbow Living Biography References

10 The Role of Diaries in the Development of Literary Biography

Early Origins Of Pepys and Evelyn Of Johnson, Boswell, et al. The Nineteenth Century, at Home and Abroad Diarists and the Inner Self Of Strachey, Woolf, et al. Conclusion References

11 Blurred Boundaries: Literary Biography, Literary Autobiography, and Evidence

“A Shifting of Emphasis”: Thomas Hardy Poetry and Privacy: Anne Sexton Confessionalism and the Cabbala: Ted Hughes One Art: Elizabeth Bishop References

12 Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers

Acknowledgements References

13 Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender

References

14 “The Man’s Life in the Letters of the Man”: Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography

References

15 J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Style in Autobiography

References

16 The Experience of Archives: Richmal Crompton and Others

References

17 Disappearing into the Front Page: The Case of Salman Rushdie and the Postmodern Memoir

“The Devil’s Party” “‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty’” The Troubled Ontology of Postmodernism References

18 Evidence and Invention: The Materials of Literary Biography

“If You Love Your Reader and Want to Be Read, Get Anecdotes!” Fiction, Non‐Fiction, Imagination, and Speculation References

19 Mustabeens and Mightabeens: The Unknowability of English Renaissance Playwrights

References

20 Literary Biography, Literary Studies, and Theory: An Uneasy Relationship

References

21 Estate Management: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark

Part III: Classic Cases

22 Chaucer

Chaucer Biography and the English Canon Autobiographical Thinking in the Later Middle Ages Writing a Biography of Chaucer in the Twenty‐First Century References

23 Writing Shakespeare’s Life

The Impossible Enterprise The Role of the Publisher The Literary and the Critical Fiction and Biography Identity Politics Future Directions? Conclusion: Identity Politics Revisited References

24 John Donne

Introduction: “I Am Not All Here” A Legend Fit for Verse: Biographical Criticism “Grown All Mind”: Formalist Approaches “This Dialogue of One”: Donne as Performative Writer “Something Like a Heart” References

25 Jonathan Swift

Introduction Swift’s Autobiographical Mythmaking Prestophobes: The Negative Biographical Tradition Personal Lives Political Lives Conclusion References

26 Life and Death in the Literary Biographies of Pope and His Circle

References

27 Richardson and Fielding

Richardson: The Novel of Virtue Fielding: The Novel of Nature Novels Writing Novelists References Further Reading

28 Biography as Myth‐Making: Obfuscation and Invention in Victorian and Post‐Victorian Literary Biography

References

29 Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling

Acknowledgment References

30 Would the Real Mr. Eliot Please Stand Up?

References

31 After Ellmann: The State of Joyce Biography

References

32 Literary Biography and the De‐Canonization of Amy Lowell

References

33 Reviewing the Lives and Works of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis

Introduction Larkin’s Diaries Early Life and Development Friendship, Correspondence, and Competition The Creation of Lucky Jim Reputations Revised The Shadow of Biography Friendship Conclusions References

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