A History of Autofiction : Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18th-Century England to Contemporary Global Anglophone Literatures.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Effe, Alexandra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiographical fiction--History and criticism.

Autobiographical fiction.

Criticism.

Self in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book maps the development of autofictional modes from the 18th century to the 21st, setting them against socio-historical changes, cultural trends and philosophical-psychological discussions around self and the mind.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What Is Autofiction and What Can It Do?

1 A Cognitive Perspective on Fictionality

2 Autofiction as Cognitive Duality and Textual Doubling

3 Affordances and Effects

Part I Claiming a Voice: Eighteenth-Century Autofictional Beginnings

4 Marketing a Mutable Author Persona: "Romantick Names, and a feign'd Scene of Action" in Delarivier Manley's Adventures of Rivella

5 Claiming the Right to Self-Publishing and Self-Editing: Alexander Pope's "disguises … of sentiment [and] style"

6 Shaping a Private Self Publicly: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Culture

7 Deliberating "ornament of stile or diction, or even of circumstance": Henry Fielding's Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

8 Living Alternative Lives in Writing: Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy "shall lead a couple of fine lives together"

Coda: From Letters, Diaries, and Transcripts to Books

Part II Hiding in Plain Sight: Autofictional Experiments of the Long Nineteenth Century

9 Romantic Freedoms in the Search for Generic Conventions

Hesitantly Autofictional Political Advocacy: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative

Autofictional Advertising of an Elusive Author: George Gordon Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

An Autofictional Publishing Ploy: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs

10 Self-Formation within Victorian (Generic) Constraints

The K ü nstlerroman as Autofictional Hint: Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

Humble Self-Promotion with a Feminist Agenda: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh

A Self Tailored for Occasion: Isabella L. Bird's Rocky Mountain Travel Writing

11 Fin-de-si è cle Transgressions of Identities and Generic Modes.

Negotiating Self-Experience and (Public) Beliefs: Eliza Lynn Linton's Cross-Dress Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland

Merging Self and Personae: Oscar Wilde's Self-Transformative and Self-Destructive Picture of Dorian Gray

Combining Ironic Detachment and Involved Recollection: Perspectivization of Self and Other in Edmund Gosse's Father and Son

Coda: From Pseudo-Disguise to Explicit Displacement

Part III Reimagining Selves and Genres: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Autofictional Innovations

12 Late Modernist Explorations of Genre and Self

Surfaces and Substitutions: Gertrude Stein's Self-Assertive Absences

Dynamic and Composite Self-Portraits: Christopher Isherwood's Self-Interrogations

13 Postmodernist Self-Creation and Self-Negation

(Auto)Fiction as Higher Truth and Falsification: Philip Roth's " two-faced " Autobiographical Acts

Writing Toward and Away from the Self: Christine Brooke-Rose's Pleasures of Discovery

14 Post-Postmodernist Collaborative World-Building

Affective and Ethical Affordances of Autofictional Testimony: Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull and Dave Eggers's What Is the What

Relational Effects across Time, Space, and Ontological Boundaries: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and Ben Lerner's 10:04

Coda: From Reader Observation to Collaboration

Conclusion

References

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-53959-7

1-350-53960-0

1-350-53958-9

OCLC:

1528362324