The art of literary biography / edited by John Batchelor.
Is literary biography so widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable intellectual reasons? Is it of interest only in so far as it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we know about a life, such as Shakespeare's, where the documentation is so scanty? These a...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Batchelor
- 1. Biography: Inventing the Truth / Richard Holmes
- 2. A Life for a Life / Jon Stallworthy
- 3. Secondary Lives: Biography in Context / Catherine Peters
- 4. Biography: Cult as Culture / Jurgen Schlaeger
- 5. Psychiatry and Literary Biography / Anthony Storr
- 6. Women's Lives: The Unmapped Country / Lyndall Gordon
- 7. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: An Author in Search of a Character / Ken Robinson
- 8. Conrad's Truancy / John Batchelor
- 9. Virginia Woolf and Offence / Hermione Lee
- 10. Huxley's Slump: Planning, Eugenics, and the 'Ultimate Need' of Stability / David Bradshaw
- 11. Elizabeth Bishop: The Secret Life of a Poet / Linda Anderson
- 12. Jane Austen, Matthew Arnold, Shakespeare: The Problem of the Opus / Park Honan
- 13. Starting Again: One of the Problems of the Biographer / Ann Thwaite
- 14. Pieties and Literary Biography / Norman White
- 15. The Necessary Ignorance of a Biographer / John Worthen.