a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1 (2016)

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Essay Cluster: Biofictions

Editorial

Editorial
The Hogan Prize
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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Introduction

Introduction
Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction
Michael Lackey
Pages: 3-10
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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The Process

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Going for the Subjective: One way to Write Biographical Fiction
Barbara Mujica
Pages: 11-20
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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Writing Biographical Fiction: Some Personal Reflections
Jay Parini
Pages: 21-26
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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On Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Fictional Portraiture
Joanna Scott
Pages: 27-32
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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Essays

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The Rise of the Biographical Novel and the Fall of the Historical Novel
Michael Lackey
Pages: 33-58
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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The President's Glands: Somatic Interiority and the Referents of Biographical Fction in American Adulterer
Catherine Belling
Pages: 59-82
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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The Notable Woman in Fiction: The Afterlives of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Julia Novak
Pages: 83-107
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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General Essays

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Life before “The New Biography”: Modernist Biographical Methods in The Hogarth Press's “Books on Tolstoi,” 1920–24
Claire Battershill
Pages: 109-132
Published online: 23 Nov 2015
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David Shields's Lyrical Essay: The Dream of a Genre-Free Memoir, or Beyond the Paradox
Arnaud Schmitt
Pages: 133-146
Published online: 29 Oct 2015
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Make a Black Life, and Bid It Sing: Sacred Song in The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea
John Saillant
Pages: 147-173
Published online: 05 Nov 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of Mammographies: The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives, by MARY K. DESHAZER
University of Michigan Press, 2015 258 pp., $32.50 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-472-03635-6
Bethany Ober Mannon
Pages: 175-178
Published online: 22 Oct 2015
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Approaches to (Auto)biography from History, Sociology, Media, and Literary Studies in Two German Publications
Anita Wohlmann
Pages: 179-185
Published online: 22 Oct 2015
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Miscellany

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 187-190
Published online: 08 Dec 2015
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