Auto/biographical discourses Criticism, theory, practice [Paperback]

In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.

Introduction

1. Identity into form: nineteenth-century auto/biographical discourses

2. Auto/biography: between literature and science

3. Bringing the corpse to life; Woolf, Strachey and the discourse of the 'new biography'

4. Autobiography and historical consciousness

5. Saving the subject

6. The law of genre

7. Auto/biographical spaces

Bibliography

Index

Laura Marcus is Lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London