Writing the Lives of Writers

Notes on the Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements A Matter of Life and Death; M.Stannard Life over Literature; or, Whatever Happened to Critical Biography?; J.Haffenden The Birth of the Author; L.Lipking Recreating Chaucer; R.Kennedy William Tyndale: Bricks without Straw; D.Daniell Writing Contexts in William Roper's Life of Thomas More ; M.Robson Life-Writing without Letters: Fielding and the Problem of Evidence; M.C.Battestin 'Acquainted with all the Modes of Life': The Difficulty of Biography; I.Grundy The White Doe of Rylstone : An Exercise in Autobiographical Displacement; J.Williams The Right to Privacy/The Will to Knowledge: Henry James and the Ethics of Biographical Enquiry; R.Salmon Ford, Eliot, Joyce and the Problems of Literary Biography; M.Saunders 'Witch' or 'Bitch'-Which?: Yeats, Archives, and the Profession of Authorship Archive; W.Gould The Biographer and Perspective; J.Worthen Explaining the Abnormal: D.H. Lawrence and Tuberculosis; D.Ellis 'The Past is with me, seen anew': Biography's End in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage; J.Winning Am I Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; H.Lee Devilish Repressions: Bertrand Russell's Use of Fiction as Autobiography; R.Monk Constructing the Biographical Subject: The Case of Malcolm Lowry; G.Bowker Textual Biography: Writing the Lives of Books; A.Atkins Vignettes: Leavis, Biography and the Body; I.MacKillop Richard Wright: Intellectual Exile; H.Rowley Private Scandals and Public Actions: the Politics of Reputation in the Career of Brian Penton; P.Buckridge Index