A matter of life and death

Martin Stannard

1-18

Life over literature; or, whatever happened to critical biography?

John Haffenden

19-35

The birth of the author

Lawrence Lipking

36-53

Re-creating Chaucer

Ruth Kennedy

54-67

William Tyndale

bricks without straw

David Daniell

68-78

Writing contexts in William Roper's life of Thomas More

Mark Róbson

79-89

Life-writing without letters

fielding and the problem of evidence

Martin C. Battestin

90-106

"Acquainted with all the modes of life"

the difficulty of biography

Isobel Grundy

107-124

The white doe of Rylstone

an exercise in autobiographical displacement

John Williams

125-134

The right to privacy/the will to knowledge

Henry James and the ethics of biographical enquiry

Richard Salmon

135-149

Ford, Eliot, Joyce, and the problems of literary biography

Max Saunders

150-172

"Witch" or "bitch" — which?

Yeats, archives, and the profession of authorship

Warwick Gould

173-190

The biographer and perspective

John Worthen

191-203

Explaining the abnormal

D. H. Lawrence and tuberculosis

David Ellis

204-211

"'The past' is with me, seen anew"

biography's end in Dorothy Richardson's pilgrimage

Joanne Winning

212-223

Am I afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Hermione Lee

224-238

Devilish repressions

Bertrand Russell's use of fiction as autobiography

Ray Monk

239-265

Constructing the biographical subject

the case of Malcolm Lowry

Gordon Bowker

266-276

Textual biography

writing the lives of books

Antony Atkins

277-292

Vignettes

Leavis, biography and the body

Ian MacKillop

293-301

Richard Wright

intellectual exile

Hazel Rowley

302-312

Private scandals and public actions

the politics of reputation in the career of Brian Penton

Patrick Buckridge

313-319