Canons and Traditions
Guest Editor: Joseph Hogan
Table of Contents
“Introduction: Lifewriting, Canons and Traditions” by Joseph Hogan
“American Autobiography: The Changing Critical Canon” by Lynn Z. Bloom and Ning Yu
“Reflections of a Reluctant Anthologist” by Arnold Krupat
“The Canon: Reverence or Re-structure? An Anthologist’s Nightmare: A Personal Account of My Decisions and Selections as Editor of The Folio Anthology of Autobiography, The Folio Society, London, 1994” by Angela G. Thirlwell
“The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds and Victorian Autobiography” by Clinton Machann
“Of Textual Demise and Literary Renewal: George Sand and the Problematics of Epistolary Autobiography” by Anne E. McCall
Other Essays
“Language of the Self in Julian of Norwich” by Jay Ruud
“G.W. Grayson—Creek Mixed Blood, Nationalist, and Autobiographer” by Robert F. Sayre
“Studies of the Self: Irish Autobiographical Writing and the Discourses of Colonialism and Independence” by Bernice Schrank
Reviews
The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self- Representation. Ed. Robert Folkenflik (Stanford UP, 1993). Review by John Hazlett
American Women’s Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory. Ed. Margo Culley (U of Wisconsin P, 1992). Reviewed by Kari J. Winter
My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography by Genaro M. Padilla (U of Wisconsin P, 1993). Reviewed by Richard D. Woods
Apology to Apostrophe: Autobiography and the Rhetoric of Self- Representation in Spain by James D. Fernández (Duke UP, 1992). Reviewed by Patricia V. Greene
Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography by Wendy Larson (Duke UP, 1991). Reviewed by Wan Liu
A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Martin A. Danahay (State U of New York P, 1993). Reviewed by Clinton Machann
Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass. Ed. William L. Andrews (G.K. Hall, 1991). Reviewed by Laura Quinn
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