Lives Out of Letters : Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth

by Habich, Robert D.; Hudspeth, Robert N.

• ISBN13: 9780838640050
• ISBN10: 0838640052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Associated Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Recasting Literary Lives
"The Best Parts of Histories": The Letters in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation	p. 25
The Captive as Celebrity	p. 65
The Inner Life of Fruitlands	p. 93
Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends Contextualized within African American Slave Narratives	p. 114
"Patch-work Labors": Susan Fenimore Cooper's Correspondence and the Emergence of Her Independent Literary Career	p. 143
"Paris Wasn't Like That": Kay Boyle and the Last of the Lost Generation	p. 169
Conversion in Germany: The Redirection of Thomas Wolfe's Late Fiction	p. 189
Reflections on the Craft of Biography
"Conversation that Makes the Soul": Writing the Biography of Mary Moody Emerson	p. 205
Chesnutt's Forgotten Story	p. 225
The Resurrection of the Author: Why Biography Still Matters	p. 236
The Perils of Writing Biography	p. 253
	p. 261
Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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