Biofictions

This collection brings together a wide range of appraoches to a topic of much current interest. It is recommended not only for students of contemporary British Literature, but also for those interested in the posthumous cultural reverberations of the Romantic poets.

• Introduction - Martin MiddekeAn Intertextual Quest for Thomas Chatterton: The Deconstruction of the Romantic Cult of Originality and the Paradoxes of Life-Writing in Peter Ackroyd's Fictional Metabiography Chattertonin Peter Ackroyd's Fictional Metabiography Chattert - Ansgar NuenningDangerous Enthusiasm: The Appropriation of William Blake in Adrian Mitchell's Tyger - Bernhard ReitzAuld Acquaintance: New Lives of Scott and Hogg - Jill RubensteinAnn Jellicoe's and Howard Brenton's Shelley - Uwe BoekerThe Dramatist as Reader: Liz Lochhead's Play Blood and Ice - Silvia MergenthalThe Truth of Fiction -- The Fiction of Truth: Judith Chernaik's Mab's Daughters - Beate Neumeier"The Life We Imagine": Byron's and Polidori's Memoirs as Character Construction - Annegret MaackIn Arcadia Nemo: The Pastoral of Romanticism - Peter Paul Schnierer"A Playful Desire of Imitation": The Ghost Stories at Diodati and A Single Summer With L.B. - Frances WilsonPoetry and Cyberpunk: Science Fiction and Romantic Biography - Christine Kenyon JonesElemental, My Dear Clare: The Case of the Missing Poet - Christopher Innes(Co-author: Sid Sondergard) Biodepictions of Mary Shelley: The Romantic Woman Artist as Mother of Monsters - Ramona Ralston