Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Criticism and the Autobiographical Tradition; Woman's Autobiographical Writings: New Forms; Sexual Identity in Modern British Autobiography; The Mask of Form in Out of Africa; Contemporary Working-class Autobiography; Appropriating (Life- ) History through Autobiographical Writing; The Politics of Edwin Muir's Autobiographies; Autobiography, Epistemology and the Irish Tradition; In Search of Himselves; Autobiography and Fiction; Do Believe Him Though I Know He Lies; Index
Summary
This volume has been organised into three informal sections after my openingessay. The first two sections are devoted to Gender and Autobiography and to thePolitics of Autobiography. Each of these sections contains two general studiesand an account of an individual work. The third section offers examples of otherimportant ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works
