A Companion to Literary Biography

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Content: Machine generated contents note: pt. I The History of Literary Biography -- 1.The Emergence of Literary Biography / Jane Darcy -- 2.Lasting First Impressions: On the Origins of Ambivalent Attitudes to the Lake Poets, Cockney Keats, and Satanic Shelley / Andrew Keanie -- 3.How to Be an Author: Victorian Literary Biography c 1830 -- 1880 / Julian North -- 4.Un/making the Victorians: Literary Biography, 1880 -- 1930 / Amber K. Regis -- 5."Aerial Creations of the Poets"? New Biography and the BBC in the 1930s / Claire Davison -- 6.Literary Biography in the Twentieth Century / Dale Salwak -- pt. II Issues, Theories, and Methodologies -- 7.Ethics and Literary Biography / Craig Howes -- 8.Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography / Jane McVeigh -- 9.Women with a Theory: Feminism and Biography / Kay Ferres -- 10.The Role of Diaries in the Development of Literary Biography / Paul K. Lyons Note continued: 11.Blurred Boundaries: Literary Biography, Literary Autobiography, and Evidence / James Underwood -- 12.Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers / Linda M. Morra -- 13.Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender / Anna Beer -- 14."The Man's Life in the Letters of the Man": Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography / Rebecca Devine -- 15.J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Style in Autobiography / Emanuela Tegla -- 16.The Experience of Archives: Richmal Crompton and Others / Jane McVeigh -- 17.Disappearing into the Front Page: The Case of Salman Rushdie and the Postmodern Memoir / Madelena Gonzalez -- 18.Evidence and Invention: The Materials of Literary Biography / Emily Bell -- 19.Mustabeens and Mightabeens: The Unknowability of English Renaissance Playwrights / Kevin De Ornellas -- 20.Literary Biography, Literary Studies, and Theory: An Uneasy Relationship / Richard Bradford Note continued: 21.Estate Management: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark / Martin Stannard -- pt. III Classic Cases -- 22.Chaucer / Marion Turner -- 23.Writing Shakespeare's Life / Lois Potter -- 24.John Donne / Tim Hancock -- 25.Jonathan Swift / James Ward -- 26.Life and Death in the Litetary Biographies of Pope and His Circle / Paul Barnes -- 27.Richardson and Fielding / Thomas Lackwood -- 28.Biography as Myth-Making: Obfuscation and Invention in Victorian and Post-Victorian Literary Biography / Jan Jedrzejewski -- 29.Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling / John Batchelor -- 30.Would the Real Mr. Eliot Please Stand Up? / Andrew Keanie -- 31.After Ellmann: The State of Joyce Biography / John McCourt -- 32.Literary Biography and the De-Canonization of Amy Lowell / Carl Rollyson -- 33.Reviewing the Lives and Works of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis / Andrew James.