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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The History of Literary Biography -- Chapter 1 The Emergence of Literary Biography -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 "Aerial Creations of the Poets"? New Biography and the BBC in the 1930s -- Notes -- References -- Online Database -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 Literary Biography in the Twentieth Century -- References -- Part II Issues, Theories, and Methodologies -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Women with a Theory: Feminism and Biography -- Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury -- Writing a Woman Writer's Life -- Granite and Rainbow -- Living Biography References -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 12 Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 13 Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14 "The Man's Life in the Letters of the Man": Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography -- References -- Chapter 15 J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Style in Autobiography -- References -- Chapter 16 The Experience of Archives: Richmal Crompton and Others -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 19 Mustabeens and Mightabeens: The Unknowability of English Renaissance Playwrights -- References -- Chapter 20 Literary Biography, Literary Studies, and Theory: An Uneasy Relationship -- References -- Chapter 21 Estate Management: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark -- Notes -- Part III Classic Cases -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 25 Jonathan Swift -- Introduction -- Swift's Autobiographical Mythmaking -- Prestophobes: The Negative Biographical Tradition -- Personal Lives -- Political Lives -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 26 Life and Death in the Literary Biographies of Pope and His Circle -- References -- Chapter 27 Richardson and Fielding -- Richardson: The Novel of Virtue -- Fielding: The Novel of Nature -- Novels Writing Novelists -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 28 Biography as Myth-Making: Obfuscation and Invention in Victorian and Post-Victorian Literary Biography -- References -- Chapter 29 Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 30 Would the Real Mr. Eliot Please Stand Up? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 31 After Ellmann: The State of Joyce Biography -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 32 Literary Biography and the De-Canonization of Amy Lowell -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Notes -- References Index -- EULA
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