Autobiography and Mysticism
Guest Editor: Carole Slade
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Autobiography and Mysticism” by Carole Slade
“The Autobiographical Tradition in Medieval Women’s Devotional Writing” by Kate Greenspan
“The Flesh Made Word: Allegory in The Book of Margery Kempe” by Leyvoy Joensen
“Writing One’s Way to Sagehood: Wu Yü-pi and His Journal” by Theresa Kelleher
“A Mystical Subtext to Newman’s Apologia” by David Goslee
“Gérard de Nerval and Women’s Autobiography: The Collective Mystical Self” by Kari Lokke
“A Definition of Mystical Autobiography” by Carole Slade
Other Essays
“Discursive Struggle in the Third World Female Voice: The Example of Raymonda Tawil’s My Home, My Prison” by Elise Salem Manganaro
“The Collaborative Rhetoric of E.M. Forster’s Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson” by Ilona M. McGuiness
Reviews
Augustine’s Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions by Robert McMahon (U of Georgia P, 1989). Reviewed by James Wetzel
The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England by Richard Wendorf (Clarendon-Oxford UP, 1990). Reviewed by Timothy Dow Adams
Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from Johnson to DeQuincy by Annette Wheeler Cafarelli (U of Pennsylvania P, 1990). Reviewed by Joel Haefner
Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography by G. Thomas Couser (Oxford UP, 1989). Reviewed by Tom Smith
Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender. Ed. Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom (State U of New York P, 1990). Reviewed by Cynthia M. Larson
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