Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'The tears shed or unshed' : Romantic poetry and questions of biography / Michael 0'Neill
  • 2. John Clare : prologue to a new life / Jonathan Bate
  • 3. Romantic biography : the case of Robert Southey / Mark Storey
  • 4. A tale of two titles / Kenneth R. Johnston
  • 5. Austen, 'enigmatic lacunae' and the art of biography / Joe Bray
  • 6. 'That perverse passion' and Benita Eisler's 'Byronic' biography of Byron / Alan Rawes
  • 7. Remaking Romantic Scotland : Lockhart's biographies of Burns and Scott / Gerard Carruthers
  • 8. Self-possession and gender in Romantic literary biography / Julian North
  • 9. Keats's frailty : the body and biography / Jennifer Wallace
  • 10. 'Winging itself with laughter' : Byron and Shelley after deconstruction / Arthur Bradley
  • 11. Writing biography that is not Romantic / Ralph Pite.