Table of Contents
The Proper Study?, Richard Holmes
Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere, Kay Ferres
From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints, Sergei Averintsev
Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance, Martin McLaughlin
National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew, Ian Donaldson
From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic Eloge, Peter France
Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography, Roger Paulin
Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to Bildungsroman, Elinor Shaffer
Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the Literary, Ann Jefferson
Yury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact', Avril Pyman
Freud and the Art of Biography, Malcolm Bowie
The Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century, Laura Marcus
The Biographer as Archaeologist, William St Clair
Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography, Mark Kinkead-Weekes
Shaping the Truth, Miranda Seymour
Sartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a Method, Christina Howells
A Life on Film, Ian Christie
'The Solace of Doubt?' Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century, James Walter