General
Berryman, Charles. "Critical Mirrors: Theories of Autobiography." Mosaic 32 (1999): 71-84.
Delany, Paul. British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century. NY: Columbia U P, 1969.
Fleishman, Avrom. Figures of Autobiography: The Language of Self-Writing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Folkenflik, Robert, ed. The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1993.
Hindmarsh, D. Bruce. The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Olney, James. Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. Prnceton: Princeton UP, 1972.
Shumaker, Wayne C. English Autobiography: Its Emergence, Materials, and Forms. Berkley: U of California Press, 1954.
Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Sturrock, John. The Languafe of Autobiography: Studies in the First Person Singular. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1993.
Victorian Autobiography
Approaches to Victorian Autobiography. Ed. George P. Landow. Ohio University Press, 1979.
Henderson, Heather. The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Peterson, Linda H. Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Wilmeth, Don. Theatrical Memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies: A Bibliography
Autobiography and Gender
Broughton, Trev Lynn. Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Auto/Biography in the Late Victorian Period. London: Routledge, 1999.
Caplan, Karen. "Resisting Autobiography: Out-law Genres and Transnational Feminist Studies." De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography. Ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1992. 115-38.
Corbett, Mary Jean. Representing Femininity: Middle-Class Subjectivity in Victorian and Edwardian Women's Autobiographies. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
Danahay, Martin A. A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1993.
Peterson, Linda H. Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity: The "Manly Englishman" and the "Effeminate Bengali" in the Late Nineteenth Century. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995.
Autobiographical Fiction and Poetry
O'Rourke, James. Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession. Charlottesville: U of Virgina Press, 2006.
Materials in the Victorian Web
Related Web Resources
- Lady Lucy Cavendish's Diary translated into a Blog (outside VW)
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