Life writing: essays on autobiography, biography, and literature

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 Index