Life Writing and Victorian Culture (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: Victorian life writing: genres, print, constituencies, David Amigoni; Diary, autobiography and the practice of life history, Martin Hewitt; Men and women of the time: Victorian prosopographies, Alison Booth; The self in society: middle-class men and autobiography, Donna Loftus; Male masochism: a model of Victorian identity formation, Martin A. Danahay; Promoting a life: patronage, masculinity and Philip Meadows Taylor's The Story of My Life, Trev Lynn Broughton; Excursive discursive in Gandhi's Autobiography: undressing and redressing the transnational self, Julie F. Codell; In the name of the Father: political biographies by radical daughters, Helen Rogers; The deaths of heroes: biography, obits, and the discourse of the press, 1890-1900, Laurel Brake; Sex lives and diary writing: the journals of George Ives, Matt Cook; 'House of Disquiet': the Benson family auto/biographies, Valerie Sanders; Index.