附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Historical figure in Renaissance and Elizabethan fiction -- Historical figure in the Seventeenth Century -- Historical figure under Realism -- Willian Styron and the politics of fiction biography -- Form, style, and the fiction biography -- Novel as alembic -- Photograph becomes a mirror -- Novelist's revenge -- Novelist as necromancer -- Historical figure in speculative fiction blurring the boundaries -- Fiction and the law -- The Public burning on trial.