Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Coming to Terms: Life Writing - from Genre to Critical Practice 1
5. PART ONE. Literary Women Who Write the Self
6. Introduction to Part One 19
7. 1. 'Life out of Art': Elizabeth Smart's Early Journals 21
8. 2. Between the Lines: Marian Engel's Cahiers and Notebooks 28
9. 3. Anna Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada as Epistolary Dijournal 42
10. 4. Writing as a Daughter: Autobiography in Wollstonecraft's Travelogue 61
11. PART TWO. Recording a Life and the Construction of Self
12. Introduction to Part Two 81
13. 5. Court Testimony from the Past: Self and Culture in the Making of Text 83
14. 6. Agostino Bonamore and the Secret Pigeon 94
15. 7. Anthropological Lives: The Reflexive Tradition in a Social Science 113
16. PART THREE. Fiction and Autofiction as Life Writing
17. Introduction to Part Three 131
18. 8. 'I Peel Myself out of My Own Skin': Reading Don't; A Woman's Word 133
19. 9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? Out of the Bathtub and into the Narrative 152
20. 10. Reading Reflections: The Autobiographical Illusion in Cat's Eye 162
21. 11. Dreaming a True Story: The Disenchantment of the Hero in Don Quixote, Part 2 171
22. PART FOUR. Poetics and Life Writing
23. Introduction to Part Four 193
24. 12. Mimesis: The Dramatic Lineage of Auto/Biography 195
25. 13. Autobiography: From Different Poetics to a Poetics of Differences 213
26. Biographical Notes 231