Writing the Lives of Writers

1. Front Matter

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2. A Matter of Life and Death

   • Martin Stannard

   Pages 1-18

3. Life over Literature; or, Whatever Happened to Critical Biography?

   • John Haffenden

   Pages 19-35

4. The Birth of the Author

   • Lawrence Lipking

   Pages 36-53

5. Re-creating Chaucer

   • Ruth Kennedy

   Pages 54-67

6. William Tyndale: Bricks without Straw

   • David Daniell

   Pages 68-78

7. Writing Contexts in William Roper’s Life of Thomas More

   • Mark Robson

   Pages 79-89

8. Life-Writing without Letters: Fielding and the Problem of Evidence

   • Martin C. Battestin

   Pages 90-106

9. ‘Acquainted with all the Modes of Life’: The Difficulty of Biography

   • Isobel Grundy

   Pages 107-124

10. The White Doe of Rylstone: An Exercise in Autobiographical Displacement

    • John Williams

    Pages 125-134

11. The Right to Privacy/The Will to Knowledge: Henry James and the Ethics of Biographical Enquiry

    • Richard Salmon

    Pages 135-149

12. Ford, Eliot, Joyce, and the Problems of Literary Biography

    • Max Saunders

    Pages 150-172

13. ‘Witch’ or ‘Bitch’ — Which? Yeats, Archives, and the Profession of Authorship

    • Warwick Gould

    Pages 173-190

14. The Biographer and Perspective

    • John Worthen

    Pages 191-203

15. Explaining the Abnormal: D. H. Lawrence and Tuberculosis

    • David Ellis

    Pages 204-211

16. ‘“The Past” is with me, seen anew’: Biography’s End in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

    • Joanne Winning

    Pages 212-223

17. Am I Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    • Hermione Lee

    Pages 224-238

18. Devilish Repressions: Bertrand Russell’s Use of Fiction as Autobiography

    • Ray Monk

    Pages 239-265

19. Constructing the Biographical Subject: The Case of Malcolm Lowry

    • Gordon Bowker

    Pages 266-276

20. Textual Biography: Writing the Lives of Books

    • Antony Atkins

    Pages 277-292

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.

• Autorschaft
• Bertrand Russell
• biography
• dialogue
• essay
• ethics
• fiction
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• knowledge
• literature
• politics
• subject
• William Butler Yeats
• William James
• Wordsworth

• University of London, UK

  Warwick Gould

• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA

  Thomas F. Staley

ANTONY ATKINS Lecturer in English, University of Reading MARTIN C. BATTESTIN Professor of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville GORDON BOWKER freelance writer PATRICK BUCKRIDGE Senior Lecturer in English, Griffith University DAVID DANIELL Emeritus Professor of English, University of London DAVID ELLIS Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury ISOBEL GRUNDY Professor of English, University of Alberta JOHN HAFFENDEN Professor of English, University of Sheffield RUTH KENNEDY Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London HERMIONE LEE Professor of English, University of York LAWRENCE LIPKING Chester D. Tripp Professor of the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois IAN MACKILLOP Reader in English Literature, University of Sheffield RAY MONK Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Southampton MARK ROBSON Lecturer, School of English, University of Leeds HAZEL ROWLEY Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Literature and Communication, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia RICHARD SALMON Lecturer in English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds MAX SAUNDERS Lecturer in English, King's College, University of London MARK STANNARD Professor of English, University of Leicester JOHN WILLIAMS Reader in Literary Studies, University of Greenwich JOANNE WINNING has recently completed her Doctorate at Birkbeck College, University of London JOHN WORTHEN Professor of D.H. Lawrence Studies, University of Nottingham.

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