Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

1 . 'Writing Artists' Lives Across Nations and Cultures: Biography, Biofiction and Transnationality; Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley.- 2. The Transnational Aspect in Harold Nicolson's The Development of English Biography ; Maryam Thirriard.- 3. Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky: A Reassessment of Transnational Identities and Abstraction through Biography; Suzanne Bode.- 4. Frances Hodgkins: A Twentieth-Century Modernist Painter Torn Between Nations; Samantha Niederman.- 5. "No use calling yourself South African. South African is nothing": Understanding and exploring the concept of place and nationhood in the life and music of Christopher James; Marc Röntsch.- 6. The Spanish Translations of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories; Jane McVeigh.- 7. Alienation and Intimacy: Transnational Writing on Julia Margaret Cameron; Tamar Hager.- 8. A Hungarian Woman Writer's Transnational Afterlife in the Digital Era: Renée Erdös (1879-1956); Anna Menyhért.- 9. "Something out of the way": Edmund Gosse's biography of Henrik Ibsen; Suze van der Poll.- 10. Chopin on the Dneiper: The Musician-Poet and Boris Pasternak's Search for the Transnational; Maria Razumovskaya.- 11. "All the nuances of his predicament": Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin; Josiane Ranguin.- 12. Vie de Paula Modersohn Becker by Marie Darrieussecq: BetweenPortrait and Self-Portrait; Manet van Montfrans.- 13. "Don't tell anyone": K. Schippers's novelist reflections on life-writing and transnationality; Sander Bax.- 14. The Hours and the Nations: Virginia Woolf's Life and Art in Michael Cunningham's America; Maximiliano Jiménez.- 15. Ethel Smyth as the composer Edith Staines in E.F. Benson's Dodo trilogy; Christopher Wiley.