Editor’s Note, p. iii
ARTICLES
Adam Sonstegard
Performing the ‘Unnatural’ Life: America’s First Gay Autobiography, p. 545
A man known as Claude Hartland wrote America’s first gay autobiography, ostensibly a case history intended to help physicians treat the pathologies of “inverts.” But as he performs the “unnatural” life these physicians expected, Hartland courts sympathizers, subtly flirting with potential sexual partners he locates among his readers.
Robert D. Aguirre
Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Anthony Trollope’s An Autobiography, p. 569
Rather than viewing Anthony Trollope’s An Autobiography as split between confessional and professional modes of life writing, this essay argues that it offers a cogent analysis of the economic and legal problematics of authorship—an analysis with broad implications for understanding autobiography’s function as a representation of the writing self.
Phyllis E. Wachter and William Todd Schultz
Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2001-2002, p. 593
REVIEWS
Moving Lives: 20th Century Women’s Travel Writing, by Sidonie Smith, p. 672
Reviewed by Cheryl J. Fish
Life Writing/Writing Lives, edited by Bette H. Kirschstein, p. 674
Reviewed by Kari J. Winter
Turns in the Road: Narrative Studies of Lives in Transition, edited by Dan P. McAdams, Ruthellen Josselson, and Amia Lieblich, p. 677
Reviewed by Barbara Frey Waxman
Biographical Research, by Brian Roberts, p. 682
Reviewed by Margaretta Jolly
Lives in Context: The Art of Life History Research, edited by Ardra L. Cole and J. Gary Knowles, p. 684
Reviewed by William K. Storey
Epistolary Histories: Letters, Fiction, Culture, edited by Amanda Gilroy and Wil Verhoeven, p. 685
Reviewed by Townsend Ludington
Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition, edited by Dwight E. Reynolds, p. 687
Reviewed by Samah Selim
The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, by Tarif Khalidi, p. 690
Reviewed by Merlin Swartz
Truth to Tell: German Women’s Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture, by Katharina Gerstenberger, p. 693
Reviewed by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expression by French and Italian Women, by Claire Marrone, p. 696
Reviewed by Laura Benedetti
Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, by the Latina Feminist Group, p. 698
Reviewed by Anny Brooksbank Jones
Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory, by Nancy J. Peterson, p. 701
Reviewed by Mark Freeman
REVIEWED ELSEWHERE, p. 708
Excerpts from recent reviews of biographies, autobiographies, and other works of interest
LIFELINES, p. 767
Upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field
CONTRIBUTORS, p. 771
INDEX TO VOLUME 25, p. 774