Literary Biography: An Introduction

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Literary Biography Now and Then

2. Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales

3. Reading Biography

4. Literary Biomythography

5. Inferential Biography: Shakespeare the Invisible Man

6. Literary Biography and Portraiture

7. Comparative Biography: Dickens’s ‘Lives’

8. Literary Auto/Biography

9. Biography in Practice

10. Authorised Lives

11. Literary Lives: Scenes and Stories

12. Biography and the Future

Select Bibliography

Further Reading

General Bibliography

Index