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- Newsletter, containing mostly information about works in progress, notes, and short book reviews
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- From the Editor
- By Barbara Sher, p. 3
- Current Interests, Work in Progress, p. 4
- Report on Autobiography Sessions at 1985 MLA
- By Martin Danahay, pg 5
- REVIEWS
- Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention. By Paul John Eakin.
- Reviewed by Tom Smith, p. 7
- The Forms of Autobiography. By William Spengemann.
- Reviewed by Martin Danahay, p. 9
- Memory and Writing from Wordsworth to Lawrence. By Philip Davis.
- Reviewed by Martin Danahay, p. 11
- Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self Interpretation. By Linda H. Peterson.
- Reviewed by Martin Danahay, p. 15
- Selected Bibliography of Victorian Autobiography Studies
- Compiled by Martin Danahay, p. 19
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DIARIES
Guest Editor: Rebecca Hogan
- Report on Diary Sessions at 1985 MLA
- By Rebecca Hogan, p. 7
- Diarists on Diaries
- By Rebecca Hogan, p. 9
- Selected Bibliography of Books and Articles on Diaries and Related Subjects
- Compiled by Rebecca Hogan, Insert p. 1
- Selected Sources on Women's Diaries
- Compiled by Rebecca Hogan, Insert p. 15
- Reading and Interpreting Unpublished Diaries by Nineteenth-Century Women
- By Suzanne Bunkers, p. 15
- REVIEWS
- Private Chronicles: A Study of English Diaries. By Robert Fothergill.
- Reviewed by Rebecca Hogan, p. 18
- Ariadne's Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women's Journals. Ed. Lyn Lifshin.
- Reviewed by Ann L. McLaughlin, p. 21
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AFRO-AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: William L. Andrews
- Methods, Elements, and Effects of Early Black Autobiography
- By Angelo Costanzo, p. 5
- Forgotten Voices of Afro-American Autobiography, 1865-1930
- By William L. Andrews, p. 21
- Bibliography: Checklist of Major Studies of Afro-American Autobiography
- Compiled by William L. Andrews, p. 28
- REVIEWS
- Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Narratives by Emily Herring Wilson.
- Reviewed by Pat Watkins, p. 32
- To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. By William L. Andrews.
- Reviewed by Paul John Eakin, p. 34
- Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. William L. Andrews.
- Reviewed by Nellie McKay, p. 40
- The Slave's Narrative. Ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Reviewed by William Andrews, p. 46
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ROMANTIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: Bradford Mudge
- Autobiography Names Itself
- By Sheila M. Kearns, p. 6
- Farce and Self-Representation in De Quincey's Confessions
- By Charles J. Rzepka, p. 14
- "Household Laws": Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal
- By Kurt Heinzelman, p. 21
- "A Piece of Autobiography": Reference in Charles Lamb's Essays
- By Mark Parker, p. 27
- Irony as Self-Concealment in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- By Andrew M. Cooper, p. 34
- Bibliography of English Romantic Autobiography and Biography
- Compiled by Bradford Mudge, p. 45
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FRENCH AND GERMAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: Judith M. Melton
- Autobiographical Signatures in New German Film
- By Julia Watson, p. 1
- German Contributions to Autobiography Studies
- By Alfred Hornung, p. 12
- Selected Bibiography on French Autobiography
- Compiled by Judith M. Melton, p. 28
- Selected Bibliography on German Autobiography
- Compiled by Judith M. Melton, p. 37
- REVIEWS
- Moi aussi. By Philippe Lejeune
- Reviewed by Marilyn Yalum, p. 24
- Autobiography: Self into Form: German-Language Autobiographical Writing of the 1970's. By Sandra Frieden.
- Reviewed by Judith M. Melton, p. 44
- Autobiography in French Literature. Ed. Maynor Hardee.
- Reviewed by JoAnn McNatt, p. 47
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MULTI-CULTURAL AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: James Robert Payne
- George Cowpay: Nineteenth-Century American Indian Autobiographer
- By A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, p. 6
- Autobiography and Ethnic Politics: Richard Rodgriguez's Hunger of Memory
- By Raymund A. Paredes, p. 18
- Assimilation in Jewish-American Autobiography: Mary Antin and Ludwig Lewisohn
- By Richard Tuerk, p. 26
- Autobiography and Black College Academics
- By SallyAnn H. Ferguson, p. 34
- Perceptions of Multicultural America in Personal Narratives of Hamlin Garland
- By James Robert Payne, p. 41
- Revelation and Mask: Autobiographies of the Eaton Sisters
- By Amy Ling, p. 46
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TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: Timothy Dow Adams
- The Impact of Critical Theory on the Study of Autobiography: Marginality, Gender, and Autobiographical Practice
- By Sidonie Smith, p. 1
- Autobiography as Anti-Biography: The Case of Twain vs. Paine
- By G. Thomas Couser, p. 13
- Representative Man: Self-Identification in the Autobiographies of Sherwood Anderson
- By Joan Henley, p. 21
- Autobiography in a Different Voice: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
- By Joan Lidoff, p. 29
- Single-Experience Autobiographies
- By Lynn Z. Bloom, p. 36
- Mad-Made Tales: Deconstructing Biography as a Feminist Act
- By Mark T. Bassett, p. 46
- REVIEWS
- Modern Selves: Essays on Modern British and American Autobiography. Ed. Philip Dodd.
- Reviewed by Paul John Eakin, p. 57
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MEXICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: Richard D. Woods
- Toward a Theory of Hispanic Autobiography
- By Jean S. Chittenden, p. 1
- An Overview of Mexican Autobiography
- By Richard D. Woods, p. 13
- Between Lines: Constructing the Political Self
- By Magdalena Maíz and Luis H. Peña, p. 23
- Jaime Torres Bodet and Autobiography
- By Beth K. Miller, p. 37
- "Everything's So Goddamned Pictorial"--North American Autobiographers' Impressions of Mexico, 1919-24
- By Helen Delpar
- Two Bibliographies:
- Compiled by Richard D. Woods
- I. Mexican Autobiography: A Selected Bibliography, p. 60
- II. Mexican Autobiography in English, p. 62
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Studies in Women's Autobiography
Guest Editor: Rose Norman
- "That the pain not be wasted": Audre Lorde and the Written Self
- By Jeanne Perreault, p. 1
- Shaping Women's Lives
- By Lynn Z. Bloom, p. 17
- A Response to "Shaping Women's Lives"
- By Estelle Jelinek, p. 23
- Lynn Bloom Replies, p. 27
- Examining the Acquisition of Cross-Cultural Knowledge: Women Anthropologists as Autobiographers
- By R. Victoria Arana, p. 28
- The Autobiographical Occupation: Alice James's Diary and the Decoration of Space
- By Janet Varner Gunn, p. 37
- Private Domains: Queen Victoria and Women's Diaries
- By Cynthia Huff, p. 46
- A Note on Textual Concerns in the Journals of Mary Chesnutt
- By Melissa Mentzer, p. 53
- Self-Reflexivity in Women's Autobiography: A Selected Bibliography
- Compiled by Suzanne L. Bunkers, p. 57
- REVIEWS
- A Poetics of Women's Autobiography. By Sidonie Smith.
- The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Shari Benstock.
- Reviewed by Julia Watson, p. 64
- The Tradition of Women's Autobiography: From Antiquity to the Present. By Estelle C. Jelinek.
- Reviewed by Suzanne L. Bunkers, p. 74
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Ed. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. 2nd ed.
- Reviewed by Julia Watson, p. 77
- Dis/Closures: Women's Autobiography in German Between 1790 and 1914. By Katherine Goodman.
- Reviewed by Judith Melton, p. 79
- Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature. By Barbara Heldt.
- Reviewed by Rebecca Hogan, p. 80
- The Journals of Mary Shelley. Ed. Paula Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert.
- Reviewed by Rebecca Hogan, p. 84
- Family Memories: An Autobiographical Journey. By Rebecca West. Ed. Faith Evans.
- Reviewed by Mary Rose Sullivan, p. 86
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ESSAYS
- Rousseau's Reveries: Autobiography as Revision
- By Eugene Stelzig, p. 97
- Autobiographical Narrative in the Letters of Jane Carlyle
- By Sharon Hileman, p. 107
- Writers at Large: Culture and Self in Victorian Women's Travel Diaries
- By Cynthia Huff, p. 118
- Stitches in a Critical Time: The Diaries of Elizabeth Robins, American Feminist in England, 1907-1924
- By Joanne E. Gates, p. 130
- Michael Arlen's Fictions of Exile: The Subject of Ethnic Autobiography
- By Caren Kaplan, p. 140
- REVIEWS
- Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography. Ed. Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenk.
- Reviewed by Rose Norman, p. 150
- Studies in Autobiography. Ed. James Olney.
- Reviewed by Cynthia Huff, p. 155
- American Indian Autobiography. By H. David Brumble.
- Reviewed by Hertha D. Wong, p. 160
- Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination. By Eugene L. Stelzig.
- Reviewed by Judith Melton, p. 163
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