This research seminar deals with the interpretation and use of diaries, autobiographies, correspondance, self-portraits, and other personal records. During the Spring quarter, students will read widely in the secondary literature and report on various themes. Each session will be composed of two parts: 1) discussion of a book assigned to all participants; 2) a report by one of the participants on a particular issue. The Fall quarter will be devoted to discussion of research papers presented by students.

For an introduction to the subject, the following works will be of use:
 
 

"Autour de l'ego-histoire," in Le Debat 49 (1988), pp. 122-140.
 

Ken Plummer, Documents of Life: An Introduction to the Problems of Literature of a Humanistic Method (London, 1983)
 

Rudolf M. Dekker, "Ego-documents in the Netherlands, 1500-1814," Dutch Crossings 39 (1989), pp. 61-72
 

Kenneth Barkin, "Autobiography in History," in Societas 6 (1976), pp. 83-108.
 

Jean-Pierre Dedieu, "The Archives of the Holy Office of Toledo as a Source for Historical Anthropology," in Gustav Hennigsen and John A Tedeschi, eds., The Inquisition in Early Modern Europe.
 

David Bryant, "Revolution and Introspection: The Appearance of the Private Diary in France," European Studies Review 8 (1978), pp. 259-277.
 

Alice Brown, "Descartes' Dreams," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 40 (1977), pp. 256-73.
 

Benigna von Krusenstjern, "Was sind Selbstzeugnisse? Begriffskritische und quellenkundliche Überlegungen anhand von Beispielen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert," in Historische Anthropologie 2 (1994), pp. 462-71.
 

Thomas Kuehn, "Reading Microhistory: The Example of Giovanni and Lusanna," in JOurnal of Modern History 61 (1989), pp. 512-34.
 

Winfried Schulze, "Ego-Dokumente: Annäherung an den Menschen in der Geschichte? Vorüberlegungen für die Tagung `Ego-Dokumente'," in Winfried Schulze, ed., Ego-Dokumente: Annäherung an den Menschen in der Geschichte (Berlin, 1996)
 

Otto Ulbricht, "Supplikationen als Ego-Dokumente," in Winfried Schulze, Ego-Dokumente, pp. 149-74.
 

Winfried Schulze, "Zur Ergiebigkeit von Zeugenbefregungen und Verhören," in Schulze, Ego-Dokumente, pp. 319-326.
 
 
 

There is a large and expanding literature on the history of the self. Some works of special interest are:
 

Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, and Steven Lukes, eds., The Category of the Person (Cambridge, 1985)
 

Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process. Vol. 1, History of Manners; Vol. 2, Power and Civility (Oxford, 1978, 1982)
 

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (New York, 1980)
 

Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (Cambridge, MA, 1989)
 
 

A very valuable reference work and introduction to literary criticism is: Wallace Martin, Recent Theories in Narration
 
 

Introduction

Assignment:

Natalie Davis, Fiction in the Archives

The Self as Image: Art and Photography
 

Victoria Best, "Mastering the Image: Photography and the Elusive Gaze," in French Cultural Studies 8,2 (1997), pp. 173ff.
 

Catherine Creswell, "Giving a Face to an Author: Reading Donne's Portraits and the 1635 Edition," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 37,1 (1995), pp. 1ff.
 

James Guimond, "Auteurs as Autobiographers," in Modern Fiction Studies 40,3 (1994), pp. 573ff.
 

Susanna Egan, "Encounters in Camera: Autobiography as Interaction," in Modern Fiction Studies 40,3 (1994), pp. 593ff.
 

Allan Stoekl, "Cartier-Bresson: Between Autobiography and Image," in Modern Fiction Studies 40, 3 (1994), pp. 631ff.
 

Gabriel Weisberg, "Painting as Autobiography: Cezanne's Early Work," Arts Magazine 63,9 (1989), pp. 54ff.
 

Marilyn Motz, "Visual Autobiography: Photograph Albums of Turn-of-the-century Midwestern Women," in American Quarterly 41,1 (1989) 63ff.
 

Mariella Melara, "Photographics/Autobiographics: Felix Nadar and the Face of Resemblance, Franch Cultural Studies 8,2 (1997), pp. 183ff.
 

Ross Leckie, "Art, Mimesis and John Ashberry's `Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror'," in Essays on Literature 19,1 (1992), pp. 114ff.
 

Terry Sullivan, "Multiple Personalities: Self-Portraits in Series by Four Masters," in American Artist 61, 662 (1997), pp. 30ff.
 

Irmgard Wirth, ed., Berliner Maler:...Selbstzeugnisse (Berlin, 1964). SRLF A000 126 069 4
 

There is a catalogue of an exhibition on "madness and art": Kunst und Wahn, ed. Ingried Bruger, Peter Gorsen and Klaus Albrecht Schröder, which may be in the library. If not, I have a copy. Look at the chapter on "Edmund Kalb: Welt im Ich--1000 Selbstbildnisse," by Rudolf Sagmeister, pp. 301ff.
 

Kunsthaus Bregenz und Stadt Dornbirn, eds, Edmund Kalb 1900-1952 (Dornbirn Bregenz, 1994)
 

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, "Zur Typologie des Selbstportraits in Wien zwischen 1900 und 1918," in Sabine Schulze, ed., Sehnsucht nach Glück. Wiens Aufbruch in die Moderne: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele (Stuttgart, 1995). Note that Schiele altogether is interesting.
 

Danielle Knafo, Egon Schiele: A Self in Creation: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Artist's Self-Portraits (Rutherford, 1993). Arts *N6811.5 S34 K63 1993
 

Denis Roche, ed., Autoportraits photographiques: 1858-1981. Brève rencontre (Paris, 1981) Arts *TR680 A88 1981
 

Pascal Bonafoux, Portraits of the Artist: The Self-Portrait in Painting (NY, 1985) Arts *ND 1300 B613 1985
 

Irene Heppner, Bibliography on Portraiture, 2 vols. (Boston, 1989, 1990) Arts ND1300 H47 1990
 

Joyce Tenneson Cohen, ed., In/Sights: Self-Portraits by Women Arts TR681 W6 I55 1978, also SRLF A001 069 1640
 

James Alinder, ed., The Photographer's Image: Self-Portrayal (Carmel, 1978) Arts *TR680 P48
 

Joseph Leo Koerner, Self-Portraiture and the Crisis of Interpretation in German Renaissance Art (1988) Arts ND1317.2 K64 S45 1988a
 

Diether Schmidt, Ich war, ich bin, ich werde sein!: Selbstbildnisse deutscher Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1968) Arts *ND1317 S53
 

Das Selbstportrait im Zeitalter der Photographie (Bern, 1985) Arts *N7618 A8 1985b
 

Edward Lucie-Smith and Sean Kelly, The Self-Portrait: A Modern View (London, 1987) Arts *ND1314.6 S45 1987
 

Frank Whitford, Expressionist Portraits (NY, 1987) Arts *ND1317.6 W5 1987
 
 

Assignment:
 

Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body and James Grantham Turner, "Pepys and the Private Parts of Monarchy," in Gerald Maclean, ed., Culture and Society in the Stuart Restpration (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 95-110.
 
 

Self testimony and literary criticism
 

Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey and Frances Murphy Zanhar, The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism (Durham, 1993). PS25 I57 1993
 

Michel Beaujour, Poetics of the Liteary Self-Portrait (NY, 1991). CT25 B3213 1991
 

Paul John Eakin, Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention (Princeton, 1988) PS 366 A88 E26 1985
 
 
 

James Goodwin, Autobiography: The Self Made Text (NY, 1993). CT25 G6 1993
 

Suzanne Nalbantian, Aesthetic Autobiography: From Life to Art in Marcel Proust... (NY, 1994) PR756 A9 N35 1994
 

Sidonie Smith, A Poetics of Women's Autobiography (Bloomington, 1987) PR756 A9 S65 1987
 

Avrom Fleischman, Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing (Berkeley, 1983) PR756 A9 F5 1983
 

Peter Boemer, Tagebuch (Stuttgart, 1969) PN4390 B633t
 

Marc Chabot, Le journal des autres (Montreal, 1988) PN4390 C52 1988
 

Beatrice Didier, Le journal intime (Paris, 1976) PN4390 D562j
 

Robert Fothergill, Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries (London, 1974) PR908 F776p
 

Alain Girard, Le journal intime (Paris, 1963). SRLF A000 133 2022
 

Rüdiger Goerner, Das Tagebuch: eine Einführung PN4390 G67 1986
 

Manfred Jurgensen, Das fiktionale Ich: Untersuchungen zum Tagebuch (Bern, 1979) PT717 J87
 

Robert Zussman, "Autobiographical Occasions," in Contemporary Sociology 25 (1996), pp. 143ff.
 

Mary Evans, "Reading Lives: How the Personal Might Be Social," Sociology 27 (1993), pp. 5ff.
 

Arnand Rykner, Narcisse et les mots-miroirs, in Romanic Review 83 (1992), 81ff.
 

Paul John Eakin, The Referential Aesthetic of Autobiography, in Studies in the Literary Imagination 23 (1990), pp. 129ff.
 

Jerome Bruner, "The Autobiographical Process," in Current Sociology 43 (1995), pp. 161ff.
 

Cecil Emden, Poets in their Letters (London, 1959). SRLF A001 136 278 7
 

Vincent Kaufmann, Postscripts: The Writer's Workshop (Cambridge, 1994). PQ611 K3813 1994
 

Guenther Niggl, ed., Die Autobiographie (Darmstadt, 1989). CT25 A98 1989
 

Experiences limites de l'epistolaire (Paris 1993) PQ711 A87 1991
 

La lettre à la croisée de l'individuel et du social (Paris, 1994) PQ711 L48 1994
 
 

Assignment:
 

Philippe Lejeune, On Autobiography
 
 

Theoretical approaches to self-reflexive writing
 

Laura Marcus, Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (NY, 1994). PR756 A9 M37 1994
 

Robert Smith, Derrida and Autobiography (Cambridge, 1995). B2430 D484 S55 1995
 

Jacques Derrida, The Ear of the Other: Autobiography, Transference, Translations (NY, 1985). CT25 D4713 1985
 

Michael Jaeger, Autobiographie und Geschichte (Stuttgart, 1995)
 

Philippe Lejeune, Je est un autre (Paris, 1980) PQ145 L4
 

Philippe Lejeune, Le mémoire est oblique (Paris, 1991) PQ2676 P413 Z51
 

Philippe Lejeune, Moi aussi (Paris, 1986) PN 3352 S44 L45 1986
 

Jeffrey Mehlman, A Structural Study of Autobiography (Ithaca, 1974) PQ 771 m474S
 

Mark Sanders, "Theorizing the Collaborative Self: The Dynamics of Contour and Content in the Dictated Autobiography," in New Literary History 25 (1994), pp. 445ff.
 

Angelika Ebrecht, et al., eds., Brief Theorie des 18. Jahrhunderts (Stuttgart, 1990) PT728 B79 1990
 
 

Assignment:
 

Robert Elbaz, Changing Nature of the Self
 
 

Gender issues in self representation
 

Personal Narrative Group, ed., Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Bloomington, 1989)
 

Diane Wood Middlebrook and Peter Stansky, Revealing LIves: Autobiography, Biography and gender (Albany, 1990) CT21 R47 1990
 

Nicole Ward Jouve, White Woman Speaks with Forked Tongue: Criticism as Autobiography (London, 1991)
 

Liz Stanley, The Auto/biographical I: The Theory and Practice of Feminist Autobiography (Manchester, 1992) PR788 W65 S7 1992
 

Magdalene Heuser, Autobiographien von Frauen (Tübingen, 1996) PT35 U61 v. 83
 

Laurie Corbin, The Mother Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation (NY, 1996) PQ307 A65 C65 1996
 

Diane Cousineau, Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/Cultural Codes (Newark, 1997) PR119 C74 1997
 

Martin Danahay, A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Albany, 1993) PR778 A9 D34 1993
 

Katherine Goodman, Dis/closures: Women's Autobiography in Germany between 1790 and 1914 (NY, 1986) PT167 G66 1986
 

Barbara Kosta, Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Ithaca, 1994) PT735 K68 1994
 

Sidonie Smith, Subjectivity, Identity and the body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington, 1993) CT25 S6 1993
 

Linda Anderson, Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century: Remembered Futures (London, 1997) PR808 W65 A53 1997
 

Suzanne L Bunkers and Cynthia A Huff, Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (Amherst, 1996) PS409 I57 1996
 

Nancy K. Miller, "Representing Others: Gender and the Subjects of Autobiography," in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6 (1994), pp. 1ff.
 

Pamela Cotterill and Gayle Letherby, "Weaving Stories: Personal Auto/biographies in Feminist Research," in Sociology 27 (1993), pp. 67ff.
 

Marjanne Gooze, "The Definitions of Self and Form in Feminist Autobiography," in Women's Studies 21 (1992), pp. 411ff.
 

Mary Favret, Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters (Cambridge, 1993) PR911 F38 1993
 

Diane Cousineau, Letters and Labyrinths: Women Writing/ Cultural Codes (Newark, 1997) PR119 C74 1997
 

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature (Boston, 1989) PN6131 W75 1989
 
 

Assignment:
 

Leigh Gilmore, Autobiographics
 
 

Memory and Narration
 

Philip Davis, Memory and Writing: From Wordsworth to Lawrence (Liverpool, 1983) PR468 M45 D38 1983b
 

John Kotre, White Gloves: How We Create Ourselves through Memory(NY, 1995) College BF378 A87 K67 1995
 

Faith Evelyn Beasley, Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth Century France (New Brunswick, 1990) PQ637 A96 B43 1990
 

Marilyn Yalom, Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in women's Memory (NY, 1993) DC145 Y35 1993
 

Susan Rubin Suleiman, "War Memories: On Autobiographical Reading," in New Literary History 24 (1993), pp. 563ff.
 

Frank Kedmore, "Memory and Autobiography," in Raritan: A Quarterly Review 15 (1995), pp. 36ff.
 

Heidrun Bomke, Vergangenheit im Spiegel autobiographischen Schreibens (Weinheim, 1993) PT3723 B66 1993
 

Sabine Groppe, Das Ich am Ende des Schreibens (Würzburg, 1990) PT731 G7 1990
 

Heather Henderson, The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative (Amherst, 1993)
 

Steven Helmling, "Joyce: Autobiogrpahy, History, Narrative," in Kenyon Review 10 (1988), pp. 91ff.
 

Gerald Peters, The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion (Amherst, 1993) PN212 P48 1993
 

Mark Workman, "Narratable and Unnarratable Lives," in Western Folklore 51 (1992), pp. 97ff.
 
 

Assignment:
 

Françoise Lionnet, Autobiographical Voices
 
 

Self-reflexive writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
 

Inge Bernheiden, Individualität im 17. Jahrhundert: Studien zum aubiographischen Schriftum (Frankfurt, 1988) SRLF A000 73 619 1
 

Paul Delany, British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1969)
 

Dean Ebner, Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century England: Theology and the Self (The Hague, 1971) BR1960 E16a
 

Michael Mascuch, Origins of the Individualist Self: Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591-1791 (Cambridge, 1997) PR756 A9 M3
 

Owen C. Watkins, The Puritan Experience. Studies in Spiritual Autobiography (London, 1972)
 

Felicity Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore, 1989) PR756 A9 N87 1989
 

Frederic Steussy, Eighteenth-Century German Autobiogrpahy (NY, 1996) PT728 S74 1996
 

Francis Barker, The Tremulous Private Body (London, 1984) PR 429 B6 B33 1984
 

Kaspar von Greyerz, Vorsehungsglaube und Kosmologie (Göttingen, 1990) BT 135 G67 1990
 

Elisabeth Bourcier, Les journaux privés en Angleterre de 1600 à 1660
 

Magdalena Buchholz, Die Anfänge der deutschen Tagebuchschreibung (Münster, 1983) PT723 B8 1983
 

Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form 1660-1785 (Chicago, 1996) PR769 S53 1996
 

Curtis Perry, "Piranesi's Prison: Thomas de Quincey and the Failure of Autobiography," in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 33 (1993), 809ff.
 

Electra Arenal and Stacey Schlau, "Strategms of the Weak: Autobiographical Prose of the Seventeenth Century Hispanic Convent," in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 9 (1990), pp. 25ff.
 

Michele Farrell, Performing Motherhood: The Sevigné Correspondence (Hanover, 1991) PQ1925 F247p
 

Bruce Redford, The converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (Chicago, 1986) PR 915 R4 1986
 

Marie-Claire Grassi, L'art de la lettre au temps de la nouvelle Heloise et du romantisme (Geneva, 1994) PQ711 G72 1994
 

John Howland, The Letter Form and the French Enlightenment (NY 1991) PQ618 H69 1991
 

Bernard Bray and Christoph Strosetzki, Art de la lettre, art de la conversation à l'époque classique en France (Paris, 1995) P95.45 A78 1995
 
 

Assignment:
 

St. Augustine, Confessions
 
 

Self-reflexive writing in the nineteenth century
 

Stendhal et les problemes de l'autobiographie (Grenoble, 1976) PQ2436 S826
 

George Landow, Approaches to Victorian Autobiography (Athens, 1979) PR788 A95 A6
 

Jerome Hamilton Buckley, The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse Since 1800 (Cambridge, MA, 1984) PR409 S35 B83 1984
 

Mary Jean Corbett, Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies (NY, 1992) PR788 W65 C6 1992
 

Regina Gagnier, Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 (NY, 1991) PR788 A9 G34 1991
 

Clinton Machann, The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (Ann Arbor, 1994) PR788 A9 M33 1994
 

Valerie Sanders, The Private Lives of Victorian Women: Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century England (NY, 1989) PR788 W65 S26 1989b
 

Paul Rosenblatt, Bitter, Bitter Tears: Nineteenth-Century Diarists and Twentieth-Century Grief Theorists (Minneapolis, 1983) BF575 G7 R67 1983
 

Loreley French, German Women as Letter Writers 1750-1850 (Madison, NJ, 1996) PT811 F74 1996
 

Roger Chartier, ed., La Correspondence: Les usages de la lettre au xixe siècle (Paris, 1991) PC2483 C67 1991
 
 

Assignment:
 

J.J. Rousseau, Confessions, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Rousseau, Judge of Jean Jacques
 
 

Self-reflexive writing in the twentieth century
 

F.R. Hart, "Notes for an Anatomy of Modern Autobiography," in Ralph cohen, New Directions in Literary History (Baltimore, 1974) PN441 C659n
 

Kathleen Ashley, et al., eds., Autobiography and Post Modernism (Amherst, 1994) PS366 A88 A92 1994
 

Georgia Johnston, "Narratologies of Pleasure: Gertrude Stein's `The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'," in Modern Fiction Studies 42 (1996), pp. 590ff.
 

John Burt Foster, "Cultural Multiplicity in Two Modern Autobiographies," in Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995), pp. 205ff.
 

Terry Keefe and Edmund Smyth, eds., Autobiography and the Existential Self (Liverpool, 1995) PQ307 A65 A93 1995b
 

Kathleen Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters, eds., Autobiogrpahy and Postmodernism (Amherst, 1994) PS366 A88 A92 1994
 

Germaine Bree, Narcissus absconditas: The Problematic Art of Autobiography in Contemporary France (Oxford, 1978) PQ629 B745n
 

Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust (University Park, 1997) D804.19 B74 1997
 

Barbara Saunders, Contemporary German Autobiography (London, 1985) PT735 S28 1985
 

Brian Finney, The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century (London, 1985) PR808 A9 F56 1985b
 

Jerry Aline Flieger, Colette and the Fantom Subject of Autobiography (Ithaca, 1992) PQ2605 C67 Z5f
 

Wolfgang Paulsen, Das Ich im Spiegel der Sprache: Autobiographisches Schreiben in der deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts (Tübingen, 1991) PT35 U61 v. 58
 

Raylene Ramsey, The French New Autobiographies (Gainesville, 1996) PQ629 R36 1996
 

Peter Sloterdijk, Literatur und Organisation von Lebenserfahrung: Autobiographien der zwanziger Jahre (Muünchen, 1978) PT735 S58 1978
 

Porter Abbott, Beckett Writing Beckett (Ithaca, 1996) PQ2603 B3885 Z5abb 1996
 

Lothar Bluhm, Das Tagebuch zum dritten Reich (Bonn, 1991) PT405 B538 1991
 

Kasimir Edschmid, Briefe der Expressionisten (Frankfurt, 1964) SRLF A 001 275 002 2
 

Mark S. Roberts, "Schreber as Machine, Technophobe and Virtualist," in TDR 40 (1996), pp. 31ff.
 

Jane Marie Todd, Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida (NY, 1990) CT25 T63 1990
 
 

Assignment:
 

Samuel Beckett, Murphy, Watt, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
 
 

The people write
 

Klaus Bergmann, Lebensgeschichte als Appell: Autobiographische Schriften der kleinen Leute and Aussenseiter (Opladen, 1991) CT25 B33 1991
 

Georg Bollenbeck, Zur Theorie und Geschichte der fruehen Arbeiterlebenserinnerungen (Kronburg, 1976) PT405 B638t 1976
 

Karin Pauleweit, Dienstmädchen um die Jahrhunderwende (Frankfurt, 1993) SRLF AA000 125 675 9
 

Julia Swindells, Victorian Writing and Working Women (Minneapolis, 1985) PR469 W65 S9 1985b
 

Michael Vogtmeier, Die proletarische Autobiographie, 1903-1914 (Frankfurt, 1984) PT735 V64 1984
 

Paula Harvey, "Spreading the Wealth: `Cultural Capital' and the Modern British Laboring Women's Autobiography," in Women's Studies 22 (1993), pp. 181ff.
 

Mary Jo Maynes, "Adolescent Sexuality and Social Identity in French and German Lower Class Autobiography" in Journal of Family History 17 (1992), pp. 397ff.
 
 

Childhood models
 

Marianne Gullestad, ed., Imagined Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts (Oslo, 1996)
 

Werner Brettschneider, "Kindheitsmuster": Kindheit als Thema autobiographischer Dichtung (Berlin, 1982) PT405 B65 1982
 

Linhua Chen, Autobiographie als Lebenserfahrung und Fiktion (Frankfurt, 1991) SRLF A001 261 939
 

Elizabeth Evasdaughter, Catholic Girlhood Narratives (Boston, 1996) CT25 E96 1996
 

John Hodgson, The Search for Self: Childhood in Autobiography and Fiction since 1940 (Sheffield, 1993) CT25 H64 1993
 

Mary Lyons, Keeping Secrets: The Girlhood Diaries of Seven Women Writers (NY, 1995) PS409 L96 1995
 
 
 

Confession
 

John Rosenberg, The Circular Pilgrimage: An Anatomy of the Confessional Autobiography in Spain (NY, 1994) AS 36 L13h no. 59
 

Charles Rzepka, Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in de Quincey (amherst, 1995) PR4536 R94 1995
 

Jeremy Trembling, Confession: Sexuality, Sin, the Subject (Manchester, 1990) PN56 C67 T36 1990
 

Pierre Pachet, Les barometres de l'âme: naissance du journal intime (Paris, 1990) PN4390 P33 1990
 

Sybil Oldfield, "News from the confessional--Some Reflections on Recent Autobiographical Writing by Women and Its Areas of Taboo," in Critical Survey 8 (1996), pp. 296ff.
 
 

Dictionaries
 

Donald Winslow, Life-Writing: A Glossary of Terms in Biography and Autobiography and Related Forms, (2d ed.: Honolulu, 1995) CT21 W56 1995
 

Histories
 

Elizabeth de Mijolla, Autobiographical Quests: Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, and Wordsworth (Charlottesville, 1994)
 

Robert Elbaz, The Changing Nature of the Self: A Critical Study of the Autobiographical Discourse (London, 1988) PQ771 E44 1988
 

George Craig and Margaret McGowan, Moy qui me voy: The Writer and the Self from Montaigne to Leiris (NY, 1989) PQ145.6 S32 M6 1989
 

Michael Sheringham, French Autobiography (Oxford, 1993) PQ771 S48 1993
 

Harriet Blodgett, Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen's Private Diaries (New Brunswick, 1988) PR 908 B56 1988
 

Judy Simons, Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf (Iowa City, 1990) PR908 S56 1990
 

Ralph Rainer Wuthenow, Europäische Tagebücher (Darmstadt, 1990) PN4390 W88 1990
 

Georg Misch, Geschichte der Autobiographie, 4 vols. (3d: Frankfurt, 1949-69) CT25 M68g 1949
 

Carl Dawson, Prophets of Past Time: Seven British Autobiographers (Baltimore, 1988) PR788 A9 D38 1988
 

Serge Donbrovsky, Autobiographiques: de Corneille à Sartre (Paris, 1988) PQ771 D6 1988
 

Robert A Fothergill, Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries (London, 1974) PR908 F776p
 

James Olney, ed., Studies in Autobiography (NY, 1988) PS366 A88 S84 1988
 

Bibliographies
 

L'autobiographie dans le monde hispanique (Aix-en-Provence, 1980) PQ6134 A97 A9
 

L'autobiographie en espagne (Aix-en-Provence, 1982) CT25 A94 1982
 

Autobiography in French Literature (Columbus, SC, 1985) PQ 145.1 A9 A98 1985
 

Biographie und Autobiographie in der Renaissance (Wiesbaden, 1982) CT 21 B464 1983
 

Biography East and West (Honolulu, 1989) PN858 B56 1989
 

Autobiographie et biographie (Paris, 1989) PQ637 A96 C65 1988
 

Interpretazione e autobiografia (Genoa, 1989) CT25 C65 1989
 

Martin Kramer, ed., Middle Eastern Lives (Syracuse, 1991) CT21 M54 1991
 

La tentation autobiographique (Montreal, 1988) CT25 R46 1986
 

James Olney, ed, Studies in Autobiography (NY, 1988) PS366 A88 S84 1988
 

Escritura autobiografica (Madrid, 1993) CT25 U55 1992
 

Marianne Beyer-Froehlich, Die Entwicklung der deutschen Selbstzeugnisse (Leipzig, 1930) PT85 D48 ser. 25 v. 1
 

Barbara Kanner, Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers (NY, 1997) URL ref. Z7963 B6 K35 1997
 

Barbara Kanner, Women in English Social History 1800-1914 3 vols (NY, 1987-90) Z7964 G7K36 1987
 

Charlotte, Otten, ed., English Women's Voices 1540-1700 (Miami, 1992) PR1110 W6 E54 1992
 

Benigna von Krusenstjern, Selbstzeugnisse der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges (Berlin, 1997)
 

Marianne Beyer-Froehlich, Empfindsamkeit (Leipzig, 1936) PT85 D48 ser. 25 v. 9
 

Marianne Beyer-Froehlich, Die Entwicklung der deutschen Selbstzeugnisse (Leipzig, 1930) PT85 D48 ser 25 v. 1
 

Marianne Beyer-Froehlich, Selbstzeugnisse aus dem dreissigjährigen Krieg und dem Barock (Leipzig, 1930) PT85 D48 ser. 25, v. 6
 

Achim von Borries, ed., Selbstzeugnisse des deutschen Judentums, 1870-1945 (Frankfurt, 1962) DS 135 G33 B64
 

Wolfram Fischer, Quellen zur Geschichte des deutschen Handwerks (Göttingen, 1957) Management Gross coll. HD2346 G3 F52q
 

Elisa von der Recke, Tagebücher und Selbstzeugnisse (München, 1984) PT2452 R57 Z5 1984
 

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