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- Special Topic: THE THERAPEUTIC DIMENSION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Guest Editor: Marilyn R. Chandler
- From the Guest Editor
- By Marilyn R. Chandler, p. 1
- A Healing Art: Therapeutic Dimensions of Autobiography
- By Marilyn R. Chandler, p. 4
- The Therapeutic Journals of Joanna Field and Etty Hilesum
- By John Woodcock, p. 15
- Images of the Heart: Marguerite Duras's Autobiographies
- By Deborah Glassman, p. 26
- The Narrowing Field: Memoirs of an Autobiography Writing Group
- By Josephine Carson, p. 48
- REVIEWS
- Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth. By Kathleen Adams.
- One to One: Self Understanding Through Journal Writing. By Christina Baldwin.
- The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity. By Tristine Rainer.
- JourneyNotes: Writing for Recovery and Spiritual Growth. By Richard Solly and Roseann Lloyd.
- Reviewed by Suzanne Bunkers, p. 66
- Rocovering Literature's Lost Ground: Essays in American Autobiography. By James M. Cox.
- Reviewed by Paul John Eakin, p. 70
- Writing a Woman's Life. By Carolyn Heilbrun.
- Reviewed by Carolyn E. Wedin, p. 75
- William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature. By Anne W. Fisher-Wirth.
- Reviewed by Anne L. Bower, p. 80
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- Special Topic: CONSTRUCTING THE SUBJECT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- (Papers from the conference, "The Subject of Autobiography,"
University of Southern Maine, September 29-October 1, 1989)
- Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, Whence and Whither
- By Linda H. Peterson, p. 85
- Self-Neglect in the Canon: Why Don't We Talk About Romantic Autobiography
- By Kay K. Cook, p. 88
- Class, Gender, and the Victorian Masculine Subject
- By Martin A. Danahay, p. 99
- Subjectivity and Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Women's Diaries as Autobiography
- By Suzanne L. Bunkers, p. 114
- "Sorella di Dante": Caroline Dall and the Paternal Discourse
- By Rose Norman, p. 124
- OTHER ESSAYS
- The Garden and the Self in Great War Autobiography
- By Mark A. R. Facknitz, p. 140
- The Italian Perspective: Italian Criticism of American Autobiography
- By Maria Marotti, p. 152
- REVIEWS
- Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Ed. The Personal Narratives Group.
- Reviewed by Rebecca Hogan, p. 159
- Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen's Private Diaries. By Harriet Blodgett.
- Reviewed by Cynthia Huff, p. 164
- Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition within a Tradition. By Joanne M. Braxton.
- Reviewed by Geneva Cobb Moore, p. 168
- Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture. By Françoise Lionnet.
- Reviewed by Julia Watson, p. 173
- Forbidden Family: A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945. By Margaret Sams. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom.
- Reviewed by Suzanne L. Bunkers, p. 178
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- Special Topic: ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND LIFEWRITING
- Guest Editor: G. Thomas Couser
- Introduction: The Embodied Self
- By G. Thomas Couser, p. 1
- Disability, Disease, and the "Philosophick Heroism" of Samuel Johnson in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- By Donald J. Newman, p. 8
- Samuel Cole Davis and the Diary of Illness
- By Steven E. Kagle, p. 17
- The Function of Illness and Disability in Three Victorian Autobiographies
- By Clinton Machann, p. 26
- The Body of Work: Illness as Narrative Strategy in Jane Addam's Twenty Years at Hull-House
- By Debra Hotaling, p. 33
- "And This Madness is My Only Strength": The Lifewriting of Unica Zurn
- By Katharina Gerstenberger, p. 40
- Voices from the Front: AIDS in Autobiography
- By Marilyn Chandler, p. 54
- Autopathography: Women, Illness, Lifewriting
- By G. Thomas Couser, p. 65
- A Change of Heart: Lifewriting and Organ Transplantation
- By Kristi E. Siegel, p. 76
- Filling the Dark Spaces: Breast Cancer and Autobiography
- By Kay K. Cook, p. 85
- OTHER ESSAYS
- Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women's Autobiography
- By Helen M. Buss, p. 95
- The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices
- By Sidonie Smith, p. 109
- REVIEWS
- The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England. By Felicity A. Nussbaum.
- Reviewed by Sidonie Smith, p. 131
- "The Vexingly Unverifiable": Truth in Autobiography. Studies in the Literary Imagination 23.2.
- The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. By Heather Henderson.
- Reviewed by Martin A. Danahay, p. 136
- Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography. By Timothy Dow Adams.
- Reviewed by Jocelyn K. Moody, p. 143
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- Special Topic: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MYSTICISM
- Guest Editor: Carole Slade
- Introduction: Autobiography and Mysticism
- By Carole Slade, p. 153
- The Autohagiographical Tradition in Medieval Women's Devotional Writing
- By Kate Greenspan, p. 157
- The Flesh Made Word: Allegory in The Book of Margery Kempe
- By Leyvoy Joensen, p. 169
- Writing One's Way to Sagehood: Wu Yü-pi and His Journal
- By Theresa Kelleher, p. 183
- A Mystical Subtext to Newman's Apologia
- By David Goslee, p. 198
- Gérard de Nerval and Women's Autobiography: The Collective Mystical Self
- By Kari Lokke, p. 211
- A Definition of Mystical Autobiography
- By Carole Slade, p. 226
- OTHER ESSAYS
- Discursive Struggle in the Third World Female Voice: The Example of Raymonda Tawil's My Home, My Prison
- By Elise Salem Manganaro, p. 240
- The Collaborative Rhetoric of E.M. Forster's Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- By Ilona M. McGuiness, p. 253
- REVIEWS
- Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions. By Robert McMahon.
- Reviewed by James Wetzel, p. 272
- The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England. By Richard Wendorf.
- Reviewed by Timothy Dow Adams, p. 277
- Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to Dequincy. By Annette Wheeler Cafarelli.
- Reviewed by Joel Haefner, p. 280
- Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography. By G. Thomas Couser.
- Reviewed by Tom Smith, p. 286
- Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender. Ed. Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom.
- Reviewed by Cynthia M. Larson, p. 292
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ESSAYS
- Is There Canon of Autobiography?
- By Eugene Stelzig, p. 1
- The Autobiographies of Glasnost: The Question of Genre in Russian Autobiographical Memoirs of the 1980s
- By Marina Balina, p. 13
- The Presentation of Linguistic Variation in Autobiographical Writing
- By Donna Glee Williams, p. 27
- Twice Other, Once Shy: Nineteenth-Century Black Women Autobiographers and the American Literary Tradition of Self-Effacement
- By Joycelyn K. Moody, p. 46
- Rhetorical Defenses: The Autobiographies of World War I Conscientious Objectors
- By Robert F. Sayre, p. 62
- "The Faint Thin Line": Temporal and Linguistic Discontinuity in Modern Love
- By Paul H. Schmidt, p. 82
- Assembling Ingredients: Subjectivity in Meatless Days
- By Linda Warley, p. 107
- REVIEWS
- Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé. By Leah D. Hewitt.
- Reviewed by Marilyn Yalom, p. 124
- American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. Paul John Eakin.
- Reviewed by G. Thomas Couser, p. 127
- Located Lives: Place and Idea in Southern Autobiography. Ed. J. Bill Berry.
- Reviewed by Rose Norman, p. 136
- Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou. By Dolly A. McPherson.
- Reviewed by Geneva Cobb-Moore, p. 140
- Mark Twain's Own Autobiography. By Mark Twain. Ed. Michael J. Kiskis.
- Reviewed by Maria Ornella Marotti, p. 149
Contents for All Back Issues
- Special Topic: NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Guest Editor: Hertha D. Wong
- Introduction
- By Hertha D. Wong, p. 157
- Opening in the Shawl: José Rey Toledo's Multiple Autobiographical Narratives
- By Susan Scarberry-Garcia, p. 163
- Almost the Whole Truth: Gerald Vizenor's Shadow-Working and Native American Autobiography
- By Betty Louise Bell, p. 180
- Havasupai Women's Songs: A Poetics of Subversion
- By Kathleen M. Donovan, p. 190
- Speaking Cross Boundaries: A Nineteenth-Century African/Native American Autobiography
- By Jonathan Bradford Brennan, p. 219
- Precarious Autobiography: Son of Old Man Hat
- By Robley Evans, p. 239
- Iterative Score from a Singulative Motif: Mountain Wolf Woman's Song of Herself
- By Melissa Hearn, p. 254
- Black Elk Speaks Again: Self-Representation in Contemporary Native American Autobiography
- By G. Thomas Couser, p. 273
- Tejana Intonations/Nez Perce Heartbeat: Notes on Identity and Culture
- By Inés Hernandez, p. 292
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ESSAYS
- Memories of Hawthorne: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Auto/Biography
- By Patricia Dunlavy Valenti, p. 1
- The Struggle of Father and Son: Edmund Gosse's Polemical Autobiography
- By Cynthia Northcutt Malone, p. 16
- Re-writing Race: Subverting Language in Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi and Alice Walker's Meridian
- By Jace Anderson, p. 33
- Virginia Woolf's "A Sketch of the Past": Life-writing, the Body, and the Mirror Gaze.
- By Diane Cousineau, p. 51
- Women's Autobiography and the Hermeneutics of Conversion
- By Peter Dorsey, p. 72
- The Self Observed: Hal Porter's Australian Autobiography, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony
- By Joan Newman, p. 91
- REVIEWS
- On Autobiography. By Philippe Lejeune. Ed. Paul John Eakin. Trans. Katherine Leary.
- "Cher cahier . . ." Témoignages sur le journal personnel. Collected and presented by Philippe Lejeune.
- Reviewed by Shirley Neuman, p. 102
- Australian Autobiography: The Personal Quest. By John Colmer.
- Reviewed by Joan Newman, p. 111
- My Father's Shadow: Intergenerational Conflict in African American Men's Autobiography. By David L. Dudley.
- Reviewed by Paul S. Nielsen, p. 117
- The Battle for Childhood: Creation of a Russian Myth. By Andrew Baruch Wachtel.
- Reviewed by Larissa Rudova, p. 123
- John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character. By Janice Carlisle.
- Reviewed by Tom Smith, p. 128
- American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative. By Mitchell Robert Breitwieser.
- Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives. Ed. William L. Andrews et al.
- Reviewed by George Savage, p. 133
- The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. Ed. Elaine Forman Crane.
- Reviewed by Steven E. Kagle, p. 136
- Mexican Autobiography/La Autobiografía Mexican: An Annotated Bibliography/Una bibliografía razonada. Comp. Richard Donovan Woods. Trans. Josefina Cruz-Melendez.
- Reviewed by Bertie Acker, p. 141
Contents for All Back Issues
- Special Topic: FEMINIST BIOGRAPHY
- Guest Editor: Janet Sharistanian
- Introduction: Feminism, Biography, Theory
- By Janet Sharistanian, p. 155
- Biography and Autobiography: Intermixing the Genres
- By Lois W. Banner, p. 159
- Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath
- By Devoney Looser, p. 179
- Caroline Leakey: Body and Authorship
- By Jenna Mead, p. 198
- The Value of Female Public Rituals for Feminist Biography: Maria Weston Chapman and the Boston Anti-Slavery Anniversary
- By Lee Chambers-Schiller, p. 217
- The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women
- By Janet Gray, p. 233
- Feminist Biography as Shaped Narrative: Telling Willa Cather's Stories
- By Sharon O'Brien, p. 258
- OTHER ESSAYS
- Growing Up with Doctor Spock: An Auto/Biography
- By Lynn Z. Bloom, p. 271
- Woman as Other, Other as Author, Author as . . . Man? The Authobiographical Dimension of The Second Sex
- By Donna Perreault, p. 286
- Mestizaje in the Mother-Daughter Autobiography of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales
- By Consuelo Lõpez Springfield, p. 303
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