A History of English Autobiography

1. Introduction: the range, limits and potentials of the form Adam Smyth; 2. Medieval life-writing: types, encomia, exemplars, patterns Barry Windeatt; 3. Autobiographical selves in the poetry of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and Lydgate David Matthew; 4. The radicalism of early modern spiritual autobiography Molly Murray; 5. Inscribing the early modern self: the materiality of autobiography Kathleen Lynch; 6. Writing and revolution: civil war lives Suzanne Trill; 7. Money, accounting and life-writing, 1600–1700: balancing a life Adam Smyth; 8. Structures and processes of English spiritual autobiography from Bunyan to Cowper Tessa Whitehouse; 9. 'Written by herself': British women's autobiography in the eighteenth century Robert Folkenflik; 10. The lives of things: objects, it-narratives and fictional autobiography, 1700–1800 Lynn Festa; 11. Empiricist philosophers and eighteenth-century autobiography John Richetti; 12. Working-class autobiography in the nineteenth century David Vincent; 13. Romantic life-writing Duncan Wu; 14. Nineteenth-century spiritual autobiography: Carlyle, Mill, Newman Richard Hughes Gibson and Timothy Larsen; 15. Emerging selves: the autobiographical impulse in Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Annie Wood Besant Carol Hanbery MacKay; 16. Victorian artists' autobiographies: transgression, res gestae and the collective life Julie Codell; 17. Victorian print culture: periodicals and serial lives, 1830–60 Stephen Colclough; 18. 'Fusions and interrelations': family members of Henry James, Edmund Gosse and others Max Saunders; 19. Queer lives: Wilde, Stein, Sackville-West, Woolf, Doolittle Georgia Johnston; 20. Anecdotal remembrance: forms of First and Second World War life-writing Hope Wolf; 21. Experiments in form: modernism and autobiography in Woolf, Eliot, Mansfield, Lawrence, Joyce and Dorothy Richardson Laura Marcus; 22. Psychoanalysis and autobiography Maud Ellman; 23. Poetry and autobiography in the 1930s: Auden, Isherwood, MacNeice, Spender Michael O'Neill; 24. Documenting lives: mass observation, women's diaries and everyday modernity Nick Hubble; 25. Postcolonial autobiography in English: the example of Trinidad Bart Moore-Gilbert; 26. Around 2000: memoir as literature Joseph Brooker; 27. Illness narratives Neil Vickers; 28. Breaking the pact: contemporary autobiographical diversions Roger Luckhurst; 29. The machines that write us: social media and the evolution of the autobiographical impulse Andreas Kitzmann.