Life Writing Essays on Autobiography, Biography and Literature [Hardcover]

This volume of more than twenty essays reflects the intersections between biography, autobiography and literature. Several pieces focus upon the contentious sub-genre of literary biography, while others examine the autobiographical threads that are detachable in literary writing and a variety of other forms.Introduction and Acknowledgements; R.Bradford PART 1: LITERARY BIOGRAPHY In Search of Peter Quennell: Redefining the Self in Kingsley Amis's The Biographer's Moustache ; A.James Pictures and Places: Enclaves of Illusion in the Life Writings of Elizabeth Bowen and Annabel Goff; D.O'Byrne Robert Lowell and 'The Business of Direct Experience'; T.Hancock Projections of the Inner 'I': Anthony Powell, George Orwell and the Personal Myth; D.J.Taylor Goldsmith and the Art of Indirect Biography; G.Gargett Obstacles Confronting the Literary Biographer; D.Salwak Hartley Coleridge and the Art of Elf Effacement; A.Keanie 'A Horse May Show His Good Intent': Opinionated Protestant Equines from Morocco to Black Beauty; K.De Ornellas Literary Biography: The Elephant in the Academic Sitting Room; R.Bradford PART 2: VARIOUS SELVES, DIFFERENT DISCOURSES: THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF LIFE WRITING Reflections on the Timing of Juan Goytisolo's Autobiographies; S.Black Wild Realism: The Fresh Air of the Real or the Changing Face of the European Novel; A.Grohmann Autofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism; E.H.Jones Sick Diarists and Private Writers of the Seventeenth Century; D.Thorley Trans-genre Confusion: What Does Autobiography Think It Is?; C.Lynch The Art of Losing: The Place of Death in Writer's Memoirs; T.C.Barker 'The Contrived Innocence of the Surface': Representing Childhood Memory in Recent British Autobiography; N.King The Relics of St. David Wojnarowicz: The Autobiography of a Mythmaker; R.Maguire PART 3: WRITERS Alan Sillitoe Ruth Fainlight An Interview with Martin Amis IndexMARTIN AMIS Writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester University, UKTIMOTHY C. BAKER Teacl+