Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. NOTE ON CITATIONS xvii
5. Part One: Points of Departure
6. CHAPTER 1. The European Nabokov, the Modernist Moment, and Cultural Biography 3
7. CHAPTER 2. The Self-Defined Origins of an Artist of Memory 24
8. CHAPTER 3. The Rejection of Anticipatory Memory 52
9. Part Two: Toward France
10. CHAPTER 4. Encountering French Modernism 73
11. CHAPTER 5. From the Personal to the Intertextual 91
12. CHAPTER 6. Narrative between Art and Memory 110
13. CHAPTER 7. Memory, Modernism, and the Fictive Autobiographies 130
14. Part Three: In English
15. CHAPTER 8. Cultural Mobility and British Modernism 159
16. CHAPTER 9. Autobiographical Images 178
17. CHAPTER 10. The Cultural Self-Consciousness of Speak, Memory 203
18. EPILOGUE: Proust over T. S. Eliot in Pale Fire (1962) 219
19. NOTES 233
20. INDEX 255