Richard Bradford - A Companion to Literary Biography

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RICHARD BRADFORD

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Names: Bradford, Richard, 1957 editor.
Title: A companion to literary biography / edited by Richard Bradford.
Description: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, [2019] | Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018016257 (print) | LCCN 2018019216 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118896280 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781118896259 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118896297 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Authors, EnglishBiographyHistory and criticismTheory, etc. | English prose literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc. | Biography as a literary form. | AuthorsBiographyAuthorship.
Classification: LCC PR756.B56 (ebook) | LCC PR756.B56 C65 2018 (print) | DDC 820.9/492dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018016257

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Paul Baines is Professor of eighteenthcentury literature in the Department of English, University of Liverpool. Among his publications are: The House of Forgery in EighteenthCentury Britain (1999); The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope (2000); Five Romantic Plays, 17681821 (edited with Edward Burns, 2000); Edmund Curll, Bookseller (with Pat Rogers, 2007); The WileyBlackwell Encyclopedia of EighteenthCentury Writers and Writing, 16601789 (with Pat Rogers and Julian Ferraro, 2011); and The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton, 17561814 (2014).

John Batchelor is an Emeritus Professor of Newcastle University and a former Fellow of New College, Oxford. His earliest book was a brief life of the fantasist and illustrator Mervyn Peake, and his later books include biographies of Conrad, Ruskin, and Tennyson, and also of Ruskins closest woman friend, Pauline, Lady Trevelyan. He has also published monographs on Virginia Woolf and H.G. Wells, a literary history, The Edwardian Novelists, and an edited volume on The Art of Literary Biography. He lives in Oxford, where he continues his academic affiliation with New College.