Illness, Disability, and Lifewriting
Guest Editor: G. Thomas Couser
Table of Contents
“Introduction: The Embodied Self” by G. Thomas Couser
“Disability, Disease, and the ‘Philosophick Heroism’ of Samuel Johnson in Boswell’s Life of Johnson” by Donald J. Newman
“Samuel Cole Davis and the Diary of Illness” by Steven E. Kagle
“The Function of Illness and Disability in Three Victorian Autobiographies” by Clinton Machann
“The Body of Work: Illness as Narrative Strategy in Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull-House” by Debra Hotaling
“‘And This Madness is My Only Strength’: The Lifewriting of Unica Zürn” by Katharina Gerstenberger
“Voices from the Front: AIDS in Autobiography” by Marilyn Chandler
“Autopathography: Women, Illness, Lifewriting” by G. Thomas Couser
“A Change of Heart: Lifewriting and Organ Transplantation” by Kristi E. Siegel
“Filling the Dark Spaces: Breast Cancer and Autobiography” by Kay K. Cook
Other Essays
“Reading for the Doubled Discourse of American Women’s Autobiography” by Helen M. Buss
“The [Female] Subject in Critical Venues: Poetics, Politics, Autobiographical Practices” by Sidonie Smith
Reviews
The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England by Felicity A. Nussbaum (Johns Hopkins UP, 1989). Reviewed by Sidonie Smith
“‘The Vexingly Unverifiable’: Truth in Autobiography.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 23.2 (Fall 1990).
The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative by Heather Henderson (Cornell UP, 1989). Reviewed by Martin A. Danahay
Telling Lies in Modern American Autobiography by Timothy Dow Adams (U of North Carolina P, 1990). Reviewed by Jocelyn K. Moody
Availability
Out of Print: A photocopy may be ordered for $25 plus shipping.
