Literary Biography
Subtitle: An Introduction
By: Michael Benton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781405194464
Subjects: Authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English prose literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Authors -- Biography -- Authorship; Biography as a literary form
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
Table of contents: title: 1. Literary Biography Now and Then; title: 2. Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales; title: 3. Reading Biography; title: 4. Literary Biomythography; title: 5. Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man; title: 6. Literary Biography and Portraiture; title: 7. Comparative Biography: Dickens's 'Lives'; title: 8. Literary Auto/Biography; title: 9. Biography in Practice; title: 10. Authorised Lives; title: 11. Literary Lives: Scenes and Stories; title: 12. Biography and the Future