In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations

ISBN-13: 9783319583822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 217 str.

Jane McVeigh

Opis

This book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers.

Spis treści

Introduction. The Poetics of Reconstruction.- 1. Trailblazers across the Twentieth Century.- 2. The Spectre in Literary Biography.- 3. Claire Tomalin and the Composite Story.- 4.  Richard Holmes and the “Implied Biographer”.- 5. Critics and Academics Haunt Literary Biography.- 6. Conversations with Biographers Haunted by Biography.- 7. Rereading and Rewriting.- Bibliography.

O autorze

Jane McVeigh is an Honorary Research Fellow in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of Roehampton, UK.