Books in the Routledge Auto/Biography Studies series

The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure; awareness of language¿s performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized.

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.

This book aims to understand through life writing and its theory what trans means when we talk about identities and bodies, and to understand better what the critical terms transmedia and transnational can mean for the field of life writing.