Writing the Lives of Writers

Notes on the Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements A Matter of Life and Death; M. Stannard Life over Literature; or Whatever Happened to Critical Biography?; J. Haffenden The Birth of the Author; L. Lipking Recreating Chaucer; R. Kennedy William Tyndale: Bricks without Straw; D. Daniell Writing Contexts in William Roper's Life of Thomas More ; M. Robson Life-Writing without Letters: Fielding and the Problem of Evidence; M. C. Battestin 'Acquainted with all the Modes of Life': The Difficulty of Biography; I. Grundy The White Doe of Rylstone : An Exercise in Autobiographical Displacement; J. Williams The Right to Privacy/The Will to Knowledge: Henry James and the Ethics of Biographical Enquiry; R. Salmon Ford Eliot Joyce and the Problems of Literary Biography; M. Saunders 'Witch' or 'Bitch'-Which?: Yeats Archives and the Profession of Authorship Archive; W. Gould The Biographer and Perspective; J. Worthen Explaining the Abnormal: D. H. Lawrence and Tuberculosis; D. Ellis 'The Past is with me seen anew': Biography's End in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage; J. Winning Am I Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; H. Lee Devilish Repressions: Bertrand Russell's Use of Fiction as Autobiography; R. Monk Constructing the Biographical Subject: The Case of Malcolm Lowry; G. Bowker Textual Biography: Writing the Lives of Books; A. Atkins Vignettes: Leavis Biography and the Body; I. MacKillop Richard Wright: Intellectual Exile; H. Rowley Private Scandals and Public Actions: the Politics of Reputation in the Career of Brian Penton; P. Buckridge Index. Language: English