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Writing the lives of writers
Abstract
Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by internationally distinguished scholars and biographers including Martin C. Battestin, Isobel Grundy, John Haffenden, Hermione Lee, Lawrence Lipking, Ray Monk, Hazel Rowley, Max Saunders, Martin Stannard and John Worthen. They tackle the lives of Chaucer, Tyndale, More, Fielding and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Wordsworth, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Yeats, Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Malcolm Lowry, F.R. Leavis, Richard Wright and Brian Penton.
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pp.19-35
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_2bricks without straw
pp.68-78
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_5pp.79-89
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_6fielding and the problem of evidence
pp.90-106
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_7the difficulty of biography
pp.107-124
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_8an exercise in autobiographical displacement
pp.125-134
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_9Henry James and the ethics of biographical enquiry
pp.135-149
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_10pp.150-172
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_11Yeats, archives, and the profession of authorship
pp.173-190
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_12D. H. Lawrence and tuberculosis
pp.204-211
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_14biography's end in Dorothy Richardson's pilgrimage
pp.212-223
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_15Bertrand Russell's use of fiction as autobiography
pp.239-265
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_17the case of Malcolm Lowry
pp.266-276
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_18writing the lives of books
pp.277-292
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_19Leavis, biography and the body
pp.293-301
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_20intellectual exile
pp.302-312
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_21the politics of reputation in the career of Brian Penton
pp.313-319
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0_22Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 328
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26548-0
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-26550-3
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-26548-0
Full citation:
Gould Warwick, Staley Thomas F (1998) Writing the lives of writers. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.