'Reverse hagiography' is the term used in Possession: A Romance (1990) by AS Byatt* to describe the character of the sinister and obsessed biographer Mortimer Cropper:
Screenshot: Page 36 of Possession: A Reader's Guide by Catherine Burgass (Google Books)
*hat tip Kerryn Goldsworthy (per Facebook discussion)
“He had a peculiarly vicious version of reverse hagiography; the desire to cut his subject down to size.”
*hat tip Kerryn Goldsworthy (per Facebook discussion)
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