Readership: Scholars, students, and general readers interested in biography as a literary form
Edited by Peter France, Professor of French, University of Edinburgh; Fellow of the British Academy, and William St Clair, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy
Review(s) from previous edition"Absorbing and informative - Times Literary Supplement 30/08/02
"An impressive collection of essays, some by well-known practitioners" - The Economist 13/12/02
Richard Holmes: The Proper Study? Kay Ferres: Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere Sergei Averintsev: From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints Martin McLaughlin: Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance Ian Donaldson: National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew Peter France: From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic Eloge Roger Paulin: Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography Elinor Shaffer: Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to Bildungsroman Ann Jefferson: Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the Literary Avril Pyman: Yury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact' Malcolm Bowie: Freud and the Art of Biography Laura Marcus: The Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century William St Clair: The Biographer as Archaeologist Mark Kinkead-Weekes: Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography Miranda Seymour: Shaping the Truth Christina Howells: Sartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a Method Ian Christie: A Life on Film James Walter: 'The Solace of Doubt'? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century
