Recovering history through fact and fiction : forgotten lives / edited by Dallas John Baker, Donna Lee Brien and Nike Sulway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Dallas John, editor.

Brien, Donna Lee, editor.

Sulway, Nike, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography as a literary form--History.

Biography as a literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

This edited collection brings together research that focuses on historic figures who have been largely neglected by history or forgotten over time. The question of how to recover, reclaim or retell the histories and stories of those obscured by the passage of time is one of growing public and scholarly interest. The volume includes chapters on a diverse array of topics, including semi-biographical fiction, digital and visual biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs, among others. Apart from the largely forgotten, the book provides fresh perspectives on historical figures whose biographies are distorted by their fame or limited by public perception. The subjects explored here include, among others, a child author, a Finnish grandmother, a cold war émigré, an Elizabethan era playwright, a castaway, a celebrated female artist, and the lauded personalities Mary Shelley, Judy Garland and J.R.R. Tolkien. Altogether, the chapters included in this collection offer a much-needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations and hybrids which will be of interest to academics and students of biography and life writing in general.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Forgotten Lives

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Writing and Performing Lives

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Romantic and Renaissance Lives

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1077-8

OCLC:

1032000849