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Title:

Lives out of letters : essays on American literary biography and documentation in honor of Robert N. Hudspeth / edited by Robert D. Habich.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

278 p. : port. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hudspeth, Robert N.
Authors, American--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.
Biography (as a literary form)

Other Authors:

Hudspeth, Robert N.
Habich, Robert D., 1951-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appendix: Robert N. Hudspeth's curriculum vitae. Robert D. Richardson -- The captive as celebrity / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- The inner life of Fruitlands / Larry Carlson -- Frank Webb's The Garies and their friends contextualized within African American slave narratives / Henry Golemba -- Patch-work labors : Susan Fenimore Cooper's correspondence and the emergence of her independent literary career / Rochelle Johnson -- Paris wasn't like that : Kay Boyle and the last of the lost generation / Sandra Spanier -- Conversion in Germany : the redirection of Thomas Wolfe's late fiction / James D. Boyer -- PART II: REFLECTIONS ON THE CRAFT OF BIOGRAPHY -- Conversation that makes the soul : writing the biography of Mary Moody Emerson / Phyllis Cole -- Chesnutt's forgotten story / Charles Hackenberry -- The resurrection of the author : why biography still matters / Gary Scharnhorst -- The perils of writing biography / Robert D. Richardson -- Appendix: Robert N. Hudspeth's curriculum vitae.

ISBN:

9780838640050 (alk. paper)
0838640052 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53084011

LCCN:

2003019980

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)