Ebook: Romantic Biography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- The Nineteenth Century Series General Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Romanticizing Biography -- 1 'The Tears Shed or Unshed': Romantic Poetry and Questions of Biography -- 2 John Clare: Prologue to a New Life -- 3 Romantic Biography: The Case of Robert Southey -- 4 A Tale of Two Titles -- 5 Austen, 'Enigmatic Lacunae' and the Art of Biography -- 6 'That Perverse Passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' Biography of Byron -- 7 Remaking Romantic Scotland: Lockhart's Biographies of Burns and Scott -- 8 Self-Possession and Gender in Romantic Literary Biography -- 9 Keats's Frailty: The Body and Biography -- 10 'Winging itself with laughter': Byron and Shelley after Deconstruction -- 11 Writing Biography that is not Romantic -- Bibliography -- Index.