Suggested further reading

Sources and Resources

"Autobiography," The Literary Encyclopedia: http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1232

A/B: Auto/Biography Studies (scholarly journal): http://abstudies.web.unc.edu/

Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography, William L. Andrews (General Ed): http://uwpress.wisc.edu/autobiography.html

Some texts I'd like to highlight:

* Hermione Lee.  Body Parts: Essays on Life-writing.  London: Chatto & Windus, 2005.
* Phelan, James.  Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.
* Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks.  Alfred Knopf, 1998.

A very eclectic bibliography.  Many of these are student recommendations and we will continue to add to the list throughout the semester:

Allen, Brooke.  “The Irrepressible Pepys,” The New Criterion (Jan 2003): 14-22.

Alther, Lisa.  “Blaming the Victim,” Women’s Review of Books 14 (1997).

Anderson, Linda. Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century Remembered Futures. Padstow: TJ Press1997.

Bazin, Claire.  “The Envoy from Mirror City,” Commonwealth 17.2 (1995): 36-43.

Bazin, Claire. “‘From the Rim of the Farthest Circle.’” Journal of New Zealand Literature 24.1 (2006): 115-130.

Bell, Robert H.  “Boswell’s Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction:  From London Journal to Life of Johnson.”  Modern Language Quarterly 38.2 (June 1977): 132-148.  Reprinted in Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell ed. Harold Bloom.  New York:  Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Benstock, Shari, ed. The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women’s Autobiographical Writings. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina P, 1988.

Bergland, Betty.  “Postmodernism and the Autobiographical Subject.”  Autobiography and Postmodernism.  Ed. Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, and Gerald Peters. Boston:  U of Massachusetts P, 1994.

Blanchard, Eli Marc. "The Critique of Autobiography." Comparative Literature 34.2 (1982): 97-115.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Women Memoirists. Volume One.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998.

Blowers, Tonya. “To the Is-Land: Self and Place in Autobiography.” Australian-Canadian Studies 18 (2000): 51-64.

Booth, Wayne C.  The Rhetoric of Fiction.  2nd Edition.  Chicago:  U of Chicago P, 1961.

Brand, Dionne: 2001.“A Map to the Door of No Return. Notes to Belonging.” Toronto: Canada Vintage Canada. 5.

Cashdan, Sheldon. The Witch Must Die: How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Conway, Jill Ker.  “Stages of a Woman’s Life,” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 48.8 (1995): 30-42.

Culley, Amy.  British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840.  Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.

De Mijolla, Elizabeth.  Autobiographical Quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994.

Delaney, Paul.  British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century.  London: Routledge, 1969.

Dixon, Sandra Lee. Augustine: The Scattered and Gathered Self.  St. Louis: Chalice P, 1999.

Donnell, Alison, and Pauline Polkey, eds. Representing Lives: Women and Autobiography. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

DuBois, W.E.B.   The Souls of Black Folk (1903). 

Earley, Samantha. "Writing from the Center or the Margins? Olaudah Equiano's Writing Life Reassessed." African Studies Review, 46 (3) (2003): 1-16.

Evans, Patrick. “Dr. Clutha’s Book of the World: Janet Paterson Frame, 1924-2004.” Journal of New Zealand Literature 22 (2004): 15-30.

Fischer, Nancy L. “Oedipus Wrecked?” Gender & Society 17.1 (2003): 92-110.

Fishburn, Katherine. The Problem of Embodiment in Early African American Narrative. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Fissell, Paul.  “The Force of Literary Memory in Boswell’s London Journal.”  Studies in English Literature 2.3 (Summer 1962):351-357.

Freeman, Mark.  “Charting the Narrative Unconscious: Cultural Memory and the Challenge of Autobiography.”  298-306 in Considering Counter-narratives: narrating, resisting, making sense.  2004.

Gardner, Susan.  “Out from Down Under: The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway,” The Women’s Review of Books 7.2 (1989): 22.

Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.

Gilmore, Leigh.  “The Mark of Autobiography:  Postmodernism, Autobiography, and Genre.”  Autobiography and Postmodernism.  Ed. Kathleen Ashley, Leigh Gilmore, and Gerald Peters.  Boston:  U of Massachusetts P, 1994.

Gilmore, Leigh.  The Limits of Autobiography:  Trauma and Testimony.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 2001.

Gilmore, Leigh. “Juristictions: I, Rigoberta Menchú, The Kiss, and ˆScandalous Self-Representation in the Age of Memoir and Trauma. Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28.2 (Summer 2002): 695-718.

Hall, Jennifer; Sabino, Robin. “The Path Not Taken: Cultural Identity in the Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano.” MELUS, 24, No. 1, African American Literature (Spring 1999): 5-19.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. New York: Norton, 1988.

Henke, Suzette A.  Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women’s Life-Writing. New York: St. Martin’s P, 1998.

Hodgson-Blackburn. “Kiss and Tell: ‘The Writing Cure in Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss(1997).” Feminist Review 68 (2001): 140-159.

King, Michael.  “Janet Frame: Antipodean Phoenix in the American Chicken Coop,” Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 15.2 (2001): 86-87.

 Marren, Susan M. “Between Slavery and Freedom: The Transgressive Self in Olaudah Equiano’s Autobiography.” PMLA, 108, No.1 (1993): 94-105.

Marshall, Elizabeth. “The Daughter’s Disenchantment: Incest as Pedagogy in Fairy Tales and Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” College English 66.4 (March 2004). 

Matthews, William and Ralph W. Rader.  Autobiography, Biography, and The Novel. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1973.

McBride, Dwight A. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. New York: New York UP, 2001.

McCooey, David.  “Parents, Crisis and Education: Jill Ker Conway’s The Road from Coorain,” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 11 (1994): 91-102. 

Mortelette, Ivane, “A Proof that I did Exist: Janet Frame and Photography,” Journal of New Zealand Literature 24.1 (2006): 94-118.

Mtubani, Victor C. D. “The Black Voice in Eighteenth-Century Britain: African Writers against Slavery and the Slave Trade.” Phylon (1960-) 45, No. 2. (2) (1984): 85-97. 

Nabokov, Vladimir.  Speak Memory: An Autobiography Revisited.  1989.

Nussbaum, Felicity A. The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989. [Chapter on Boswell called “Manly Subjects”]

Nussbaum, Felicity.  “Toward Conceptualizing Diary.”  Studies in Autobiography Ed. James Olney.  New York:  Oxford UP, 1988.

O’Connell, Jeffrey and Thomas O’Connell.  Friendships Across Ages:  Johnson and Boswell, Holmes and Laski.  Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books, 2008.

Olney, James, Ed.  Studies in Autobiography.  New York:  Oxford U P, 1988.

Orban, Katalin. “Dominant and Submerged Discourses in The Life of Olaudah Equiano (or Gustavus Vassa?).” African American Review, 27, No. 4. (1993): 655-664. 

Parker, David.  “Counter-Transference in Reading Autobiography: The Case of Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss,” Biography 25.3 (2002): 493-503.

Parker, David. “Counter-Transference in Reading Autobiography: The Case of Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” Biography 25.3 (Summer 2002): 493-504.

Phelan, James.  Living to Tell About It:  A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 2005.

Popkin, Jeremy D. “Ego-histoire Down Under,” Australian Historical Studies 129 (207): 106-23.

Popkin, Jeremy D. “Historians on the Autobiographical Frontier,” The American Historical Review 104.3 (1999): 725-48.

Riley, Patrick.  Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau and Sartre.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Rockell, Angela. “Meeting the Angel.” Southerly 62.3 (2002): 8-18.

Samuel, Wilfried D. “Disguised Voice in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African.”  Black American Literature Forum 19, (2) (1985): 64-69. 

Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson, eds. Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1998.

Sturrock, John.  The Language of Autobiography: Studies in the first person singular. Cambridge UP, 1993.

Tinkler, Alan. “Janet Frame.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 24.2 (Summer 2004): 89-122.

Tomalin, Claire.  Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.  Knopf, 2002.

Vance, John A. ed.  Boswell’s Life of Johnson:  New Questions, New Answers.  Athens: The U of Georgia P, 1985.

Williams, Mark.  “Janet Frame (1924-2004),” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature39 (2004), 39.