Week 8: May 26

Part I

Assignment:

St. Augustine, Confessions

Part 2

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 siecle (Paris, 1991) PC2483 C67 1991