Modernism and autobiography / edited by Maria DiBattista, Emily O. Wittman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiBattista, Maria, 1947- editor.

Wittman, Emily Ondine, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Modernism & autobiography

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers sixteen original essays that attest to the extraordinary inventiveness and range of modernist autobiography. It examines the ways modernist writers chose to tell their life stories, with particular attention to forms, venues, modes of address, and degrees of truthfulness. The essays are grouped around a set of rubrics that isolate the distinctive character and shared preoccupations of modernist life-writings: questions of ancestry and tradition that foreground the modernists' troubled relation to their immediate familial as well as cultural past; their emergence as writers whose experiences found expression in untraditional and singular forms; their sense of themselves as survivors of personal and historical traumas; and their burdens as self-chroniclers of loss, especially of self-loss. It will appeal especially to scholars and students of literary modernism and English literature more generally.

Contents:

Edmund Gosse's Father and Son, modernism, and a history of nerves / Francis O'Gorman

The 'fascination of what I loathed': science and self in W.B. Yeats's Autobiographies / Rónán McDonald

Writing at sea: Conrad's Personal Record of 'my life', and 'my two lives' / Michael Levenson

Two Henrys: James and Adams as autobiographers / Lee Mitchell

Spaces of time: Virginia Woolf's life-writing / Elizabeth Abel

Travel writing as modernist autobiography: Evelyn Waugh's Labels and the writing personality / Jonathan Greenberg

Queer autobiographical masquerade: Stein, Toklas, and others / Barbara Will

A young writer grows old: Elizabeth Bowen's autobiographies / Allan Hepburn

'Leaving the Territory': Ralph Ellison's backward glance / Marc Conner

Touching semiliterate lives: Indian soldiers, the Great War, and life-"writing" / Santanu Das

The last of Katherine Mansfield: the affective life in the Journal and the Letters / Jay Dickson

T.S. Eliot's impersonal correspondence / Max Saunders

The real Hem / Maria DiBattista

'Death Before the Fact': posthumous autobiography in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Smile Please / Emily O. Wittman

Abstraction, impersonality, dissolution / Robert L. Caserio

Name after name: Beckett's secret autobiography / Michael Wood.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-98984-7

1-316-01046-5

1-139-98523-X

1-316-01270-0

1-316-00146-6

1-139-17783-4

1-316-00820-7

1-316-00596-8

1-316-00370-1

OCLC:

889647771