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.
Conway, Jill Ker.
“The News Hour with Jim Lehrer Transcript” (June 1, 1998).
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.
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 Literature 39 (2004), 39.
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