
Writing Lives: Literary Biography
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Summary
Table of Contents
Introduction | |
Reading life writing: The influence of early biographers: Plutarch | |
The Victorian approach | |
Bloomsbury | |
Autobiography | |
Life Writing and the Second World War | |
Women's autobiographical writing | |
Family memoirs | |
Biographical structure in the twentieth century and key writers | |
Ethics and biography | |
Assignments.2 Approaching the texts: How biographers choose their subjects | |
Structuring a life | |
New approaches to biography | |
Other forms of life writing: letters and diaries, autobiographical fiction | |
Sources | |
Illustrations | |
Assignments | |
Texts and extracts: Peter Ackroyd, from Dickens | |
Maya Angelou, from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | |
John Aubrey, from Brief Lives | |
JG Ballard, from Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life | |
Vera Brittain, from Testament of Youth and Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War, Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends | |
Elizabeth Gaskell, from The Life of Charlotte Brontd | |
Brian Keenan, from An Evil Cradling | |
Doris Lessing, from Alfred and Emily | |
Primo Levi, from If This is a Man | |
Alison Light, from Mrs Woolf and the Servants, Janet Malcolm, from The Silent Woman | |
Sylvia Plath, 'Morning Song' | |
Plutarch, from Parallel Lives | |
James Shapiro, from 1599, A Year in the Live of William Shakespeare | |
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, from Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers | |
Virginia Woolf, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, volume III, 1925-30 | |
Critical Approaches: The autobiographical writings of Doris Lessing | |
Alfred and Emily | |
Critical responses to Alfred and Emily | |
Assignments | |
How to write about life writing: The writer and the reader | |
Different perspectives: comparing texts ;The context of writing: facts and their emphasis | |
Your own and other readers' interpretations | |
Assignments | |
Resources: Chronology | |
Further reading | |
Websites | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
Acknowledgements | |
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