Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of contributors

pp xi-xvi

1 - Introduction: The range, limits, and potentials of the form

pp 1-10

PART 1 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEFORE ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY’ (CA. 1300–1700)

pp 11-12

2 - Medieval life-writing: Types, encomia, exemplars, patterns

pp 13-26

3 - Autobiographical selves in the poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate

pp 27-40

4 - The radicalism of early modern spiritual autobiography

pp 41-55

5 - Inscribing the early modern self: The materiality of autobiography

pp 56-69

6 - Re-writing revolution: Life-writing in the Civil Wars

pp 70-85

7 - Money, accounting, and life-writing, 1600–1700: Balancing a life

pp 86-100

PART 2 - RELIGION, GENDER, THINGS (CA. 1700–1800)

pp 101-102

8 - Structures and processes of English spiritual autobiography from Bunyan to Cowper

pp 103-118

9 - ‘Written by herself’: British women's autobiography in the eighteenth century

pp 119-132

10 - The lives of things: Objects, it-narratives, and fictional autobiography, 1700–1800

pp 133-147

11 - Empiricist philosophers and eighteenth-century autobiography

pp 148-162

PART 3 - THE MANY NINETEENTH CENTURIES (CA. 1800–1900)

pp 163-164

12 - Working-class autobiography in the nineteenth century

pp 165-178

13 - Romantic life-writing

pp 179-191

14 - Nineteenth-century spiritual autobiography: Carlyle, Newman, Mill

pp 192-206

15 - Emerging selves: The autobiographical impulse in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Annie Wood Besant

pp 207-220

16 - Victorian artists’ autobiographies: Transgression, res gestae, and the collective life

pp 221-236

17 - Victorian print culture: Periodicals and serial lives, 1830–1860

pp 237-252

PART 4 - RELATIONAL LIVES AND FORMS OF REMEMBERING (CA. 1890–1930)

pp 253-254

18 - ‘Fusions and interrelations’: Family memoirs of Henry James, Edmund Gosse, and others

pp 255-268

19 - Queer lives: Wilde, Sackville-West, and Woolf

pp 269-283

20 - Anecdotal remembrance: Forms of First and Second World War life-writing

pp 284-297

21 - Experiments in form: Modernism and autobiography in Woolf, Eliot, Mansfield, Lawrence, Joyce, and Richardson

pp 298-312

22 - Psychoanalysis and autobiography

pp 313-328