Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes, ed R...

Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes, ed Romantic Biography. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2003 xvii + 202 pp ISBN 0-7546-0993-6 $6995

"Romantic biography lives." for a like reason begins this timely and provocative collection of essays, and indeed, a preliminary check of my library catalogue reveals the epidemic to be more rampant than I had steady suspected. In the last five years alone, no fewer than forty biographies of major romantic-period literary figures have hit the pres We've had Andrew Motion's Keats, Miranda Seymour's Shelley, Claire Harman's Burney Diane Jacobs's