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This volume is devoted to life-writing in English from 1945 to the present day, a period in which life-writing became an increasingly popular and accessible form.

Table of Contents
Introduction 1: Aftermath: Confronting the Inhuman 2: Biographies of the Unconscious 3: Self-Knowledge as a Question 4: Coming Out 5: Feminism's Lyric Selves 6: Autoethnography 7: Intimate Memoirs 8: Memory Culture 9: Posthuman Monsters 10: Literary Biography and Theory 11: Celebrity and its Literary Consequences 12: Prospect: Human 2.0? Bibliography

The Oxford History of LifeWriting

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      Publisher: OUP Oxford
      Publication Date: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780198737339, 978-0198737339
      ISBN10: 0198737335
      Also in:
      Biography ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume is devoted to life-writing in English from 1945 to the present day, a period in which life-writing became an increasingly popular and accessible form.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1: Aftermath: Confronting the Inhuman 2: Biographies of the Unconscious 3: Self-Knowledge as a Question 4: Coming Out 5: Feminism's Lyric Selves 6: Autoethnography 7: Intimate Memoirs 8: Memory Culture 9: Posthuman Monsters 10: Literary Biography and Theory 11: Celebrity and its Literary Consequences 12: Prospect: Human 2.0? Bibliography

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