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