The Impossible Craft : : Literary Biography / / Scott Donaldson.

In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers, enco...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2015
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Beginnings
  • 2 Topics in literary biography
  • 3 The impossible craft
  • 4 Case studies
  • 5 The Cheever Misadventure
  • Bibliography
  • Index