Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Biofiction and writers' afterlives / Bethany Layne
  • Part one: Origins: Biofiction, the historical novel, and the new biography. Death-bringing history and the origins of biofiction / Michael Lackey
  • Pseudo-quotations and alternative facts: Lytton Strachey and the ethics of biofiction in the post-truth moment / Todd Avery
  • Part two: Biofiction and the long-nineteenth century subject. Portraits of the writer as a young woman: re-imagining Charlotte Brontë in biofiction / Kyle Mirmohamadi
  • 'The shadow of Henry James': biofication and the distorted image / Daniel Buckingham
  • Biofiction versus biography: definitions, goals, and techniques of two versions of Rupert Brooke's Life, the biofiction The great lover by Jill Dawson (2009) and the biography Rupert Brooke: life, death and myth by Nigel Jones (2015) / Patricia Stuart-Reid
  • Part three: Biofiction and the twentieth-century subject: focus on Virginia Woolf. Onceness, biofiction, and the living body / Maggie Gee
  • 'Time passes' in Maggie Gee's Virginia Woolf in Manhattan (2014) / Elisabetta Varalda
  • Biofiction as corrective justice in Ellen Hawkes and Peter Manso's The shadow of the moth: a novel of espionage with Virginia Woolf (1984) / Monica Latham
  • Adeline: a novel of Virginia Woolf (2015) as reflective biography / Elaine Hudson
  • Part four: Biofiction and the biopic. Contrarians at the gate: biofiction, the anti-biopic and I, Tonya (2017) / Virginia Newhall Rademacher
  • 'Unwrapping Lady Lazarus': female creativity and suicide in The hours (2002) and Sylvia (2003) / Chloe de Lullington