In Collaboration With British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations
by Jane McVeigh /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt
about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have
been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty
years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the
people described in these biographies, and more concerned with
how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation
with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard
Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices
heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an
ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their
subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also
a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to
help us come to a better understanding of our own.
This book is about one person’s reading and what has been learnt
about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have
been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty
years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the
people described in these biographies, and more concerned with
how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation
with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard
Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices
heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an
ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their
subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also
a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to
help us come to a better understanding of our own.
