Writing lives : biography and textuality, identity and representation in early modern England

Preface and Acknowledgments I. INTRODUCING LIVES Introduction II. LIVES AND BORDERS 1. Biography and Modernity: Some Thoughts on Origins 2. An Irregular Life: Not a Biography of Constantijn Huygens II. LITERATURES AND LIVES 3. 'Secrets and Lies': The Life of Edmund Spenser 4. The Early Lives of John Milton 5. Gossip and Biography 6. Considering the Ancients: Dryden and the Uses of Biography III. PAINTING LIVES 7. 'Naught But Illusion'? Buckingham's Painted Selves 8. Painting a Life: The Case of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709) IV. MATERIALS AND MONARCHS 9. Two Queens, One Inventory: The Lives of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor 10. Elizabeth on Elizabeth: Underexamined Episodes in an Overexamined Life 11. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Writing Early Modern Monarchs and the 'Life' of James II V. SPIRITUAL SELVES 12. 'This girl hath a spirit averse from Calvin': reading the Life, hearing the voice(s) 13. 'Alchemy and Monstrous Love': Sir Robert Moray and the Representation of Early Modern Lives 14. Reading Clarke's Lives in Political and Polemical Context 15. The Servant and the Grave Robber: Walton's Lives in Restoration England VI. TOWARDS BIOGRAPHY 16. Biography and Fiction List of Contributors