
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 313-319
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503
Full citation:
, "Private scandals and public actions", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998


Private scandals and public actions
the politics of reputation in the career of Brian Penton
pp. 313-319
in: Warwick Gould, Thomas F. Staley (eds), Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998Abstract
Janet Malcolm observes, in her absorbing meta-biography of Sylvia Plath-and-Ted Hughes, that "the transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged", and comments, somewhat mischievously, that "the voyeurism and busybodyism that impel writers and readers of biography alike are obscured by an apparatus of scholarship designed to give the enterprise an appearance of banklike blandness and solidity".1
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 1998
Pages: 313-319
ISBN (Hardback): 9781349265503
Full citation:
, "Private scandals and public actions", in: Writing the lives of writers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1998