Overview
- Features interviews with key literary biographers Michael Holroyd, Hermione Lee, Richard Holmes, and Claire Tomalin
- Examines a variety of literary biographies from eminent writers such as Hermione Lee and Peter Ackroyd
- Positions these works as literature in their own right
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jane McVeigh is an Honorary Research Fellow in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of Roehampton, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: In Collaboration with British Literary Biography
Book Subtitle: Haunting Conversations
Authors: Jane McVeigh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58383-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58382-2Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86394-8Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58383-9Published: 13 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 217
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Contemporary Literature