Companion to Literary Biography

Richard Bradford is Research Professor of English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has held posts in Oxford, the University of Wales, and Trinity College, Dublin. He has produced 25 academic monographs on a variety of topics and has published well-reviewed literary biographies with trade presses on figures such as Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Martin Amis, John Milton, and Ernest Hemingway.

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• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Richard BradfordPart I The History of Literary Biography 71 The Emergence of Literary Biography 9Jane Darcy2 Lasting First Impressions: On the Origins of Ambivalent Attitudes to the Lake Poets, Cockney Keats, and Satanic Shelley 25Andrew Keanie3 How to Be an Author: Victorian Literary Biography c. 1830–1880 45ulian North4 Un/making the Victorians: Literary Biography, 1880–1930 63Amber K. Regis5 “Aerial Creations of the Poets”? New Biography and the BBC in the 1930s 87Claire Davison6 Literary Biography in the Twentieth Century 107Dale SalwakPart II Issues, Theories, and Methodologies 1217 Ethics and Literary Biography 123Craig Howes8 Concerns about Facts and Form in Literary Biography 143Jane McVeigh9 Women with a Theory: Feminism and Biography 159Kay Ferres10 The Role of Diaries in the Development of Literary Biography 175Paul K. Lyons11 Blurred Boundaries: Literary Biography, Literary Autobiography, and Evidence 195James Underwood12 Reading and Interpreting: The Archival Legacies of Canadian Women Writers 213Linda M. Morra13 Johnny and Bess: Life Writing and Gender 229Anna Beer14 “The Man’s Life in the Letters of the Man”: Larkin, Letters, and Literary Biography 245Rebecca Devine15 J.M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Style in Autobiography 263Emanuela Tegla16 The Experience of Archives: Richmal Crompton and Others 275Jane McVeigh17 Disappearing into the Front Page: The Case of Salman Rushdie and the Postmodern Memoir 291Madelena Gonzalez18 Evidence and Invention: The Materials of Literary Biography 309Emily Bell19 Mustabeens and Mightabeens: The Unknowability of English Renaissance Playwrights 325Kevin De Ornellas20 Literary Biography, Literary Studies, and Theory: An Uneasy Relationship 339Richard Bradford21 Estate Management: Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark 357Martin StannardPart III Classic Cases 37322 Chaucer 375Marion Turner23 Writing Shakespeare’s Life 391Lois Potter24 John Donne 405Tim Hancock25 Jonathan Swift 423James Ward26 Life and Death in the Literary Biographies of Pope and His Circle 437Paul Baines27 Richardson and Fielding 455Thomas Lockwood28 Biography as Myth‐Making: Obfuscation and Invention in Victorian Mand Post‐Victorian Literary Biography 469Jan Jędrzejewski29 Dickens, Tennyson, Kipling 489John Batchelor30 Would the Real Mr. Eliot Please Stand Up? 511Andrew Keanie31 After Ellmann: The State of Joyce Biography 529John McCourt32 Literary Biography and the De‐Canonization of Amy Lowell 547Carl Rollyson33 Reviewing the Lives and Works of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis 565Andrew JamesIndex 581