Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms Volume 1

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The Encyclopedia of Life Writing purports to be the first substantial reference work in English to "provide a map of the field across discipline and region." "Life writing" is defined by the editor as something that "encompasses the writing of one's own or another's life," meaning standard autobiography and biography as well as letters, diaries, and memoirs. Other formats that aid in the telling of life stories are also included, in entries such as Film, Photography , and Testimony . More than 600 alphabetically arranged entries are written by scholars in various disciplines. The aim is to provide an overview of central genres or themes and shed light on the significance of important individual writers and works in the field of life writing, all across an international and historical perspective. There are a complete alphabetical list of entries in the front of the encyclopedia as well as a thematic list that is classified according to chronological, regional, and subject divisions. Other reader aides include see and see also references, notes on the contributors and advisors, and a comprehensive index. Each entry contains a descriptive and critical essay with a "Further Reading" list of anywhere from a few to more than 60 books and journal articles. Entries on people also have a brief biographical sketch and a list of selected writings related to life writing. Where possible, English translations of foreign writings are given, and in cases where no English language translation is available, literal translations of titles are usually given in brackets. More autobiographers are featured than biographers to keep the focus on the form and skill of the writing rather than the fame of the life in question. Most seminal individuals in the field appear to be covered, although it is surprising that Jacobean diarist Lady Anne Clifford does not rate a main entry. encyclopedia of Page Intentionally Left Blank encyclopedia of To my parents Page Intentionally Left Blank CONTENTS Page Intentionally Left Blank EDITOR’S NOTE Arrangement of the Entries Format within Entries Acknowledgements BOARD OF ADVISERS Page Intentionally Left Blank CONTRIBUTORS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENTRIES THEMATIC LIST Page Intentionally Left Blank Abélard, Peter Adolescence and Life Writing Africa: West and Central (Francophone) Alfieri, Vittorio Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Life Writing Arabic Travel Writing Archives Aung San Suu Kyi Australia: 18th- and 19th-Century Diaries and Letters Australia: 20th-Century Life Writing Autobiography and Fiction Bâ, Amadou Hampâté Bashπ The Bible Biographie universelle; Dictionnaire de biographie française The Body and Life Writing Britain: Travel, Exploration, and Imperialism Britain: 20th-Century Letters Bunyan, John Canada: Auto/biography to 1900 Canada: Diaries and Letters to 1900 Canada: French Canadian Life Writing Canetti, Elias Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo Childhood and Life Writing Churchill, Winston Conduct Books Confucianism and Life Writing Conversion and Turning Points Criminal Autobiography Dante Alighieri Dillard, Annie Dolgorukaia, Natali’ia Eckermann, Johann Edwards, Jonathan Ethnography Facey, A.B. Feminism Finland France: 20th-Century Auto/biography Franklin, Benjamin Gandhi, Mohandas K. [“Mahatma”] Gender and Life Writing Germany, Austria, Switzerland: 17th-and 18th-Century Diaries and Letters al-Ghaz\lı¯ Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Carlo Guevara, Ernesto [“Che”] Hagiography Herzen, Aleksandr Hoffman, Eva Horne, Donald 1921– Huxley, T.H. The I-Novel Ibn Batt®ta Isherwood, Christopher Italy: 17th- and 18th-Century Auto/biography Page Intentionally Left Blank Jacobs, Harriet Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor Judaism and Life Writing Kafka, Franz Kazin, Alfred Korea Page Intentionally Left Blank Latin America: 15th to 18th Centuries Latvia Leduc, Violette Leonora Christina Leopardi, Giacomo Lewis, C.S. Liang Qichao Literary Autobiography Lorde, Audre Page Intentionally Left Blank McCarthy, Mary Mandel’shtam, Osip Memoirs Military Autobiography Mill, John Stuart Motivation Page Intentionally Left Blank Nabokov, Vladimir Narayan, R.K. Nature, the Environment, and Life Writing Page Intentionally Left Blank Obituaries Odinga, Oginga Päätalo, Kalle Pedagogy and Life Writing Perec, Georges Petrarch Pioneer and Captivity Writings, American Pliny the Younger Portugal: Autobiography Reconciliation and Life Writing Roy, Gabrielle Russia: to 1700 Page Intentionally Left Blank al-Sa‘dƒw¡, Nawƒl Sahgal, Nayantara Sartre, Jean-Paul Seuse, Heinrich Sewall, Samuel Siam Soyinka, Wole Spain: 20th Century Spanish America: Indigenous Life Writing Sporting Auto/biography Ssu-ma Ch’ien Stevenson, Robert Louis Szász, Béla Page Intentionally Left Blank Table Talk Television and Life Story Time Toller, Ernst Tone, Wolfe United States: 16th- and 17th-Century United States: 19th-Century Auto/biography Varnhagen, Rahel Levin Vico, Giambattista Vivekananda, Swami Voltaire Wales Wells, H.G. Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Page Intentionally Left Blank Xie Bingying Yeats, W.B. Page Intentionally Left Blank Zorrilla y Moral, José INDEX Page Intentionally Left Blank NOTES ON ADVISERS AND CONTRIBUTORS