Lives out of letters
Subtitle: essays on American literary biography and documentation in honor of Robert N. Hudspeth
By: edited by Robert D. Habich.
Contributors: Hudspeth, Robert N.; Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; UNKNO
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Madison, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Hudspeth, Robert N.; Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.; American prose literature -- History and criticism.; Biography as a literary form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The best parts of histories : the letters in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation / Mark L. Sargent; title: The captive as celebrity / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola; title: The inner life of Fruitlands / Larry Carlson; title: Frank Webb's The Garies and their friends contextualized within African American slave narratives / Henry Golemba; title: Patch-work labors : Susan Fenimore Cooper's correspondence and the emergence of her independent literary career / Rochelle Johnson; title: Paris wasn't like that : Kay Boyle and the last of the lost generation / Sandra Spanier; title: Conversion in Germany : the redirection of Thomas Wolfe's late fiction / James D. Boyer; title: Conversation that makes the soul : writing the biography of Mary Moody Emerson / Phyllis Cole; title: Chesnutt's forgotten story / Charles Hackenberry; title: The resurrection of the author : why biography still matters / Gary Scharnhorst; title: The perils of writing biography / Robert D. Richardson.