Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Writing Artists’ Lives Across Nations and Cultures: Biography, Biofiction and Transnationality
	Artists’ Lives and the Return of the Author
	The Turn to Transnationalism
	Bibliography
Part I (Re)Thinking Biography—Artists in Between Nations and Cultures
2 The Transnational Aspect in Harold Nicolson’s The Development of English Biography
	Bibliography
3 Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky: A Reassessment of Transnational Identities and Abstraction Through Biography
	Gabriele Münter and the First Biography
	Transnational Biography and a Reinstatement of Multiple Identities
	Münter and Kandinsky: Abstraction Through Transnational Identity
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
4 Frances Hodgkins: A Twentieth-Century Modernist Painter Torn Between Nations
	‘Englishness’ of Art Made in Britain
	Debunking Nationalism in Modernist Artistic Identities
	Home Away from Home
	Bibliography
5 ‘No Use Calling Yourself South African. South African Is Nothing’: Understanding and Exploring the Concept of Place and Nationhood in the Life and Music of Christopher James
	Introduction
	Christopher James’s Background
	James’s (Trans)Nationality
	Africa—But Which Africa?
	Paradise Regained
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Part II Writing the Lives of Transnational Artists
6 The Spanish Translations of Richmal Crompton’s Just William Stories
	Bibliography
7 Alienation and Intimacy: Transnational Writing on Julia Margaret Cameron
	Transnational Biography, Biographer and Space
	Encounter
	From Curiosity to Estrangement
	Between Attraction and Recoil
	Choosing Ambivalence
	In-Between Spaces: A Conclusion
	Bibliography
8 A Hungarian Woman Writer’s Transnational Afterlife in the Digital Era: Renée Erdős (1879–1956)
	The Transnational Afterlife in the Digital Era
	Hungarian Women’s Literary Tradition
	Renée Erdős
	A Free Woman: Writing About Renée Erdős’s Life
	The Two Renées
	Transnational Afterlives as Products of Digital Network Activities
	Bibliography
Part III Artists on Transnational Artists
9 ‘Something Out of the Way’: Edmund Gosse’s Biography of Henrik Ibsen
	‘Something Out of the Way’—Becoming a Biographer
	Henrik Ibsen—A Serious Biography
	Edmund Gosse as the English Tour Guide to Ibsen’s Life, Work and Country
	Henrik Ibsen—A World Citizen
	Bibliography
10 Chopin on the Dnieper: The Musician-Poet and Boris Pasternak’s Search for the Transnational
	Bibliography
11 ‘All the Nuances of His Predicament’: Caryl Phillips on James Baldwin
	Caryl Phillips: Transnationalism as a Necessity
	Transnational Baldwin: ‘I’m a Witness. That’s My Responsibility’
	Bibliography
12 Vie de Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq: Between Portrait and Self-Portrait
	Être ici est une splendeur: Vie de Paula Modersohn Becker
	Marriage, Motherhood and Art
	A Life in Pictures
	Requiem for a Friend
	Portrait and Self-Portrait
	Bibliography
Part IV Fictional Representations of Artists’ Lives Transnationally
13 ‘Don’t Tell Anyone’: K. Schippers’s Reflections as Novelist on Life-Writing and Transnationality
	The Autobiographical Novel
	The Novelist as Biographer
	Writer vs. Biographer
	Bibliography
14 The Hours and the Nations: Virginia Woolf’s Life and Art in Michael Cunningham’s America
	Bibliography
15 Ethel Smyth as the Composer Edith Staines in E. F. Benson’s Dodo Trilogy
	Bibliography
Index