Romantic biography / edited by Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rawes, Alan.

Bradley, Arthur.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

Biography as a literary form.

English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.

Authors, English.

Authors, English--Biography.

American prose literature--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xvii, 202 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Romanticizing Biography / Arthur Bradley, Alan Rawes xi

1 'The Tears Shed or Unshed': Romantic Poetry and Questions of Biography / Michael O'Neill 1

2 John Clare: Prologue to a New Life / Jonathan Bate 18

3 Romantic Biography: The Case of Robert Southey / Mark Storey 33

4 A Tale of Two Titles / Kenneth R. Johnston 48

5 Austen, 'Enigmatic Lacunae' and the Art of Biography / Joe Bray 58

6 'That Perverse Passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' Biography of Byron / Alan Rawes 74

7 Remaking Romantic Scotland: Lockhart's Biographies of Burns and Scott / Gerard Carruthers 93

8 Self-Possession and Gender in Romantic Literary Biography / Julian North 109

9 Keats's Frailty: The Body and Biography / Jennifer Wallace 139

10 'Winging itself with laughter': Byron and Shelley after Deconstruction / Arthur Bradley 152

11 Writing Biography that is not Romantic / Ralph Pite 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0754609936

OCLC:

50023339