Full Description
This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only from Europe, but also the Near East, and Japan. This volume features new views of the complex field of historical autobiography studies, and is the first to put the genre in a global perspective.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker and Michael Mascuch
PART ONE: HISTORICIZNG THE SELF
Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830, Peter Burke
Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography, James S. Amelang
Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia's Childhood Memoirs , Lotte van de Pol
Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography, Peter Fritsche
Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time, Philippe Lejeune
The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America, Molly McCarthy
Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers' Diaries, Marilyn Himmesoëte
Marking Time: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s, Katie Holmes
The Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the "Movement for One's Own History" (Jibunshi), Petra Buchholz
Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922, Ofer Nordheimer Nur
PART TWO: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING
The Economy of Narrative Identity, Paul John Eakin
Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld
John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley's Journal (1740-91),
Michael Mascuch
Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, Donna Loftus
Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski, André van der Velden
"Reading The Body": Authors' Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public, Lisa Kuitert
Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles, Pieter R.D. Stokvis
Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918, Marijke Huisman
The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society, Henri Beunders
PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF
Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments, Arianne Baggerman
