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(2009)
Literary Biography
An Introduction
by Michael George Benton
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This book illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors. It includes issues and controversies in life writing and offers a biographical and historical context for the study of major classic and contemporary authors.
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Literary Biography: An Introduction
2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Table of Contents
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
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