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Biographical fiction : a reader /

In Biographical Fiction: A Reader, some of the finest scholars and writers of biofiction clarify what led to the rise of this genre, reflect on its nature and form, and specify what it is uniquely capable of doing.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lackey, Michael (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
Subjects:
Biography as a literary form.
Biography in literature.
Biographical fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Biographical fiction.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Lackey
  • "Author's Note" from God's Angry Men (1932) / Leonard Ehrlich
  • "Foreword" from Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1950) / Wallace Stegner
  • "A Final Word" from King of Paris (1956) / S. Guy Endore
  • "Nat Turner Revisited" from American Heritage (1992) / William Styron
  • "A Postscript" from In the Time of the Butterflies (1992) / Julia Alvarez
  • "Afterword" from Sally Hemings (1994) / Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • "Preface" from To the Hermitage (2000) / Malcolm Bradbury
  • "Introduction" from The Danish Girl (2000) / David Ebershoff
  • "The Historical Novelist's Burden of Truth" from In Fact (2001) / Thomas Mallon
  • "What Is True About This Story" from Girl in a Cage (2002) / Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris
  • "Henry James for Venice" from The Henry James Review (2006) / Colm Tóibín
  • "Author's Note" from Lost Son (2007) / M. Allen Cunningham
  • "About Vanessa and Virginia" from the Two Ravens Press UK website (2008) / Susan Sellers
  • "Author's Note" from Fall of Frost (2008) / Brian Hall
  • "Going for the Subjective: One Way to Write Biographical Fiction" from a/b:Auto/Biography Studies (2016) / Barbara Mujica
  • "On Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Fictional Portraiture" from a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (2016) / Joanna Scott
  • "Foreword" from Woman on Horseback: The Biography of Francisco Lopez and Eliza Lynch (1938) / William E. Barrett
  • "Acknowledgements" from The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch (2002) / Anne Enright
  • "Author's Note" from The News from Paraguay (2004) / Lily Tuck
  • "The Biographical Novel" from Three Views of the Novel (1957) / Irving Stone
  • "The Uses of History in Fiction" from The Southern Literary Journal (1968) / C. Vann Woodward, Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren, and William Styron
  • "Biofictions" from Revue des Sciences Humaines (1991) / Alain Buisine
  • "The Uses of History in the Biographical Novel" from Conversations with Jay Parini (2014) / Michael Lackey, Jay Parini, Bruce Duffy, and Lance Olsen
  • "Fixed Facts and Creative Freedom in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) / Julia Alvarez
  • "The Truth Contract in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) / Russell Banks
  • "In the Fog of the Biographical Novel's History" from Truthful Fictions (2014) / Bruce Duffy
  • "Enhanced Symbolic Interiors in the Biographical Novel" from Truthful Fictions (2014) / Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Biographical Form and Its 'Problematics'" from The Historical Novel (1937) / Georg Lukács
  • "The Buxom Bibliographies" from College English (1955) / Carl Bode
  • Excerpt from "Contemporary Biography" from The Art of Biography (1965) / Paul Murray Kendall
  • "Fictional Biography, Factual Biography, and their Contamination" from Biography (1982) / Ina Schabert
  • "Fact or Fiction: Writing Biographies Versus Writing Novels" from Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Writing and Politics (1997) / Jay Parini
  • "Introduction" from Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama (1999) / Martin Middeke
  • Chapters four and five from Biography and the Postmodern Historical Novel (2001) / John Keener
  • "Fictional Metabiographies and Metaautobiographies: Towards a Definition, Typology and Analysis of Self-Reflexive Hybrid Metegenres" from Self-Reflexivity in Literature (2005) / Ansgar Nünning
  • "The Canon and Biofiction: The Subjects of History and New Literary Worlds" from altri canoni/canoni altri: pluralismo e studi letterari (2011) / Valentina Vannucci
  • "Serv[ing] under two masters': Virginia Woolf's Afterlives in Contemporary Biofictions" from a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (2012) / Monica Latham.