Editor’s Note, p. iv
ARTICLES
Jeremy D. Popkin
Coordinated Lives: Between Autobiography and Scholarship p. 781
Edited collections of specially prepared autobiographical essays have become a common form of autobiographical publication in the past few decades, especially in American academia. Their development raises questions about autobiographical writing that departs from the individualist assumptions prevalent in the genre, and about the boundary between autobiographical and scholarly writing.
Kate Douglas
“Blurbing” Biographical: Authorship and Autobiography, p. 806
This article examines the practice of book jacket “blurbing,” and will consider its particular relevance to questions of authorship. Using three contemporary autobiographies as examples — Andrea Ashworth’s Once in a House on Fire, Jenny Diski’s Skating to Antarctica, and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit — I argue that this practice of book promotion has played an influential role in reconstructing authorial agency and author ownership of written work. Yet, rather than serving the individual writer, this author-resurrection profits the web of stakeholders involved in the production and promotion of literary texts.
Phyllis E. Wachter and William Todd Schultz
Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2000-2001, p. 827
REVIEWS
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony, by Leigh Gilmore, p. 917
Reviewed by Susannah B. Mintz
Memory, Narrative, Identity: Remembering the Self, by Nicola King, p. 922
Reviewed by Susanna Egan
Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will, by Richard Freadman, p. 925
Reviewed by Clinton Machann
Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography, by David J. Leigh, p. 927
Reviewed by Betty A. Bergland
Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding, by David Ellis, p. 933
Reviewed by Catherine N. Parke
Placing Autobiography in Geography, edited by Pamela Moss, p. 935
Reviewed by Liz Millward
The Ethics of Autobiography: Replacing the Subject in Modern Spain, by Ángel G. Loureiro, p. 938
Reviewed by Edward H. Friedman
The Confession of Augustine, by Jean-François Lyotard, p. 942
Reviewed by Graham Ward
Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France, by Patricia Francis Cholakian, p. 944
Reviewed by Michèle Longino
The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth Century France, edited by Jo Burr Margadant, p. 946
Reviewed by Lucy M. Schwartz
Le Journal Intime: Genre littéraire et écriture ordinaire, by Françoise Simonet-Tenant, p. 948
Reviewed by Rebecca M. Pauly
Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart, and Anaïs Nin, by Elizabeth Podnieks, p. 951
Reviewed by Angela Smith
Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters, by Linda Hunt Beckman, p. 954
Reviewed by Lillian S. Robinson
Diaries of Girls and Women: A Midwestern American Sampler, edited by Suzanne Bunkers, p. 959
Reviewed by Karen L. Kilcup
Life Prints: A Memoir of Healing and Discovery, by Mary Grimley Mason, p. 963
Reviewed by J. Brooks Bouson
Obituaries in American Culture, by Janice Hume, p. 967
Reviewed by Stephanie Foote
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, by Barry Schwartz, p. 970
Reviewed by Howard Jones
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, by Lisa Norling, p. 973
Reviewed by Seth Rockman
African American Autobiography and the Quest for Freedom, by Roland L. Williams, Jr., p. 975
Reviewed by Mark Helbling
The Joshua Lederberg Papers. Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine, Website by Joshua Lederberg, p. 978
Reviewed by Kevin Warwick
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue, by Ellen Land-Weber, p. 982
Reviewed by Jacqueline Vansant
REVIEWED ELSEWHERE, p. 985
Excerpts from recent reviews of biographies, autobiographies, and other works of interest
LIFELINES, p. 1015
Upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field
CONTRIBUTORS, p. 1018
INDEX TO VOLUME 24, p. 1022
