Introduction : who do you think you are? -- 1. Pamela, Rousseau and Equiano : trousseaux, confessions and tall tales -- 2. Two romantic egos : Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English opium eater -- 3. Victorian individualisms and their limitations -- 4. James Joyce and self-portraiture -- 5. In prison and in chains : Oscar Wilde's De profundis and Brian Keenan's An evil cradling -- 6. Talking properly : class acts in Carolyn Steedman and Alan Bennett -- 7. China women : Jung Chang's Wild swans and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior -- 8. Death sentences : the sense of an ending? : living with dying in narratives of terminal illness
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index
