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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Speculative Biography : Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations
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'While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether this is to conceptualise a project in its early stages, work with scanty or deliberately deceptive sources, or address issues associated with shy or stubborn subjects. After defining the role of speculation in biography, the volume offers a series of work-in-progress case studies that discuss the challenges biographers encounter and address in their work. In addition to defining the ‘speculative spectrum’ within the biographical endeavour, the collection offers a lexicon of new terms to describe different types of biographical speculation, and more deeply engage with the dynamic interplay between research, subjectivity and that which Natalie Zemon Davis dubbed ‘informed imagination’. By mapping the field of speculative biography, the collection demonstrates that speculation is not only innate to biographical practice but also key to rendering the complex mystery of biographical subjects, be they human, animal or even metaphysical.' (Publication summary)

Contents

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Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations in Speculative Biography: Opening and Overview, Donna Lee Brien , Kiera Lindsey , single work criticism
A New Contextualisation of ‘"The Facts Formed a Line of Buoys in the Sea of My Own Imagination": History, Fiction and Speculative Biography’", Donna Lee Brien , single work criticism
The Speculative Method: Scientific Guesswork and Narrative as Laboratory, Kiera Lindsey , single work criticism
On the Threshold: Conceptual Speculation, Ffion Murphy , Kiera Lindsey , Donna Lee Brien , single work criticism
Show Your Workings : Towards A Creative Historical Toolkit, William G. Pooley , single work criticism
Scrying the Lost Wildflowers of ‘Wee Witchee Wee’, Kiera Lindsey , single work criticism
Writing to Save Sun Bears : Speculating about Non-Human Characters within Biography, Sarah Pye , Paul Williams , single work criticism
Choreographing George Balanchine: The Life as Ballet Program, Jessica Wilkinson , single work criticism
Speculating about a Spy : Working with ‘Suspicious Sources’ in Deciphering the Life of Ralph Harry Laura Thompson, Laura Thompson , single work criticism
Based on the Evidence and My Experience: The Role of Speculative Biography in a Decolonised Reimagining of the Bungalow, Alice Springs 1914–1929, Linda Wells , single work criticism
Bespoke Biography: Writing Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life, Louise Martin-Chew , single work criticism
Using Informed Imagination When Writing About Controversial Characters: The Case of Dr Felix Kersten and Himmler, Anne M. Carson , single work criticism
Speculative Historical Viability: A Grave Undertaking?, Paul Sandringham , single work criticism
Challenges and Limitations of Speculation in True Crime Biography: A Lawyer’s Lens, Rachel Spencer , single work criticism
Biographical ‘Facts’ and Speculative Forms: Writing John and Rose Morley Through New Eyes, Kevin A. Morrison , single work criticism
The Curious Case of Cornelius Cardew: An Exercise in Reflective Speculation, Harriet Cunningham , single work criticism
Why Not Tell?: Eddie Samuels, the Authentic Self and the Novel as Speculative Autobiography, James Worner , single work criticism
Speculative Biography as Dewdrop: Writing Women’s Lives, Deborah Jordan , single work criticism

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Routledge ,
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 320p.
      Reprinted: 31 May 2023
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      • Published September 30, 2021
      ISBN: 9780367515829

Works about this Work

At the Forefront of Practice Research : The Speculative Method Nigel Krauth , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Speculative Biography : Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations 2021 anthology criticism
'We expect that leading research in the creative writing discipline will keep us abreast of
exploration and innovation across a broad spectrum of writing practices. This collection of
essays, focused on the contentious Speculative Biography sub-genre, does just that.' 

 (Introduction)

At the Forefront of Practice Research : The Speculative Method Nigel Krauth , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 1 2022;

— Review of Speculative Biography : Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations 2021 anthology criticism
'We expect that leading research in the creative writing discipline will keep us abreast of
exploration and innovation across a broad spectrum of writing practices. This collection of
essays, focused on the contentious Speculative Biography sub-genre, does just that.' 

 (Introduction)

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