Special Editors: Clare Brant, Alison Wood, and Max Saunders
Table of Contents
“Introduction: The Work of Life Writing” by Clare Brant and Alison Wood
“Genetic Studies of Life Writing” by Philippe Lejeune
“Life Writing in the Family” by Jeremy D. Popkin
“‘Unlike actors, politicians or eminent military men’: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography” by Claire Lynch
“Ecobiographical Negotiations in Richard K. Nelson’s The Island Within” by Micha Edlich
“The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir” by Mary Besemeres
“Heroes and Hostages” by Olivia Sagan
“Then and Now: Comparing the Soviet and Post-Soviet Experience in Latvian Autobiographies” by Mārtiņš Kaprāns
“The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Biography of a Medical Textbook” by Ruth Richardson
“Lives in Institutions” by Kathryn Hughes
Conference Report by Clare Brant and Max Saunders
Reviews
Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women’s Writing. By Laura Laffrado (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2009). Reviewed by Rebecca Harrison
Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women’s Texts at Home and in the Diaspora. By Jaspal Kaur Singh (Calgary: U of Calgary P, 2008). Reviewed by Anastasia Christou
Availability
In Print: $15/$30
