Part I

Assignment:

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

Part 2

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, Dienstmddchen um die Jahrhunderwende (Frankfurt, 1993) SRLF AAOOO 125 675 9

Julia Swindells, Victorian writing and Working Women (Minneapolis, 1985) PR469V65 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'ame: naissance du journal intime (Paris, 1990) PN4390P33 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.