Literary Biography

Literary Biography by Michael Benton, a book which features a lot of Brontë references, is out this month:

Literary Biography: An Introduction
Michael Benton
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9446-4
Hardcover
280 pages
October 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can enrich the study of canonical authors.

* Provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of issues and controversies in life writing, a rapidly growing field of study
* Offers a valuable biographical and historical context for the study of major classic and contemporary authors
* Features an interview with Wilfred Owen's biographer, Dominic Hibberd; a gallery of literary portraits with commentaries; close readings that illustrate the differences between fiction and biography; speculation about likely future developments; and detailed suggestions for further reading

Includes:

2. Life [Hi]Stories: Telling Tales
Aspects of Narrative
(i) Beginnings: Charlotte Brontë

4. Literary Biomythography
Biomythography
Myth-Making: The Brontë Paradigm
(i) Facts: Selection and ‘Spin’
(ii) Fact into Fiction
(iii) Fiction into Myth
(iv) Myth into ‘Faction’
(v) Demythologising the Brontës

6. Literary Biography and Portraiture
Sister Arts
(x) Branwell’s Ghost: Branwell Brontë’s Portrait of his Three Sisters

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