American autobiography : retrospect and prospect / edited by Paul John Eakin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eakin, Paul John.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in American autobiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--History and criticism.

American prose literature.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

vi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1991]

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.

Contents:

Part I. Four Centuries of American Autobiography

1. The Prehistory of American Autobiography / Daniel B. Shea 25

2. Autobiography in the American Renaissance / Lawrence Buell 47

3. "Self"-Conscious History: American Autibiography after the Civil War / Susanna Egan 70

4. Modern American Autobiography: Texts and Transactions / Albert E. Stone 95

Part II. Varieties of American Autobiography

5. The Making of Ethnic Autobiography in the United States / William Boelhower 123

6. Immigrant Autobiography: Some Questions of Definition and Approach / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong 142

7. Native American Autobiography and the Synecdochic Self / Arnold Krupat 171

8. African-American Autobiography Criticism: Retrospect and Prospect / William L. Andrews 195

9. Nineteenth-Century Autobiographies of Affiliation: The Case of Catharine Sedgwick and Lucy Larcom / Carol Holly 216

10. Speaking Her Own Piece: Emma Goldman and the Discursive Skeins of Autobiography / Blanche H. Gelfant 235

11. The Way We Work / Jane Hallowell Coles, Robert Coles 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

029912780X

0299127842

OCLC:

22309923