Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references
Historical figure in Renaissance and Elizabethan fiction -- Historical figure in the Seventeenth Century -- Historical figure under Realism -- Willian Styron and the politics of fiction biography -- Form, style, and the fiction biography -- Novel as alembic -- Photograph becomes a mirror -- Novelist's revenge -- Novelist as necromancer -- Historical figure in speculative fiction blurring the boundaries -- Fiction and the law -- The Public burning on trial