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 Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: Developments in Auto­biographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xviii)   (128K)
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    • Contents
    • Notes On Contributors
    • List Of Illustrations
  • Introduction (1-10)   (86K)
  • Historicizing The Self, 1770–1830 (11-32) by Peter Burke   (598K)
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    • 1. Historicism
    • 2. The Idea Of The Self
    • 3. Egodocuments
    • 4. Changes In Autobiography: Three Case-Studies
    • Appendix: A Select Chronology Of Ego-Documents
    • Bibliography
  • Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition And The Act Of Autobiography (33-48) by James S. Amelang   (247K)
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    • Appendix
    • Bibliography
  • Autobiographical Memory In The Making: Wilhelmina Of Prussia’s Childhood Memoirs (49-76) by Lotte Van De Pol   (626K)
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    • Wilhelmina’s Childhood Memoirs In Context
    • The Manuscripts Of The Memoirs
    • Childhood Years In Wartime
    • Wilhelmina’s Memories Of Her Childhood
    • The Context In Which The Memoirs Were Written
    • Constructing The Story Of Her Childhood
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Drastic History And The Production Of Autobiography (77-94) by Peter Fritzsche   (335K)
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    • Bibliography
  • Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time (95-120) by Philippe Lejeune   (890K)
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    • Appendix: Essay Sur L’Émploi du Temps
    • Bibliography
  • The Diary And The Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time In Nineteenth-Century America (121-146) by Molly McCarthy   (1M)
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    • Bibliography
  • Writing And Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers’ Diaries (147-168) by Marilyn Himmesoëte   (382K)
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    • Bibliography
  • Marking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries Of The 1920s And 1930s (169-196) by Katie Holmes   (587K)
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    • Bibliography
  • The Second World War And Autobiography In Japan. Tales Of War And The “Movement For One’s Own History” (Jibunshi) (197-214) by Petra Buchholz   (559K)
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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Personal Memories Of The Day Of Defeat In World War II
    • 3. Writing Movements In Postwar-Japan
    • 4. Jibunshi And War Memory
    • 5. The Requiem
    • Bibliography
  • Can There Be A Collective Egodocument? The Case Of The Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection In Palestine, 1922 (215-228) by Ofer Nordheimer Nur   (101K)
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    • Bibliography
  • The Economy Of Narrative Identity (229-246) by Paul John Eakin   (112K)
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    • Narrative Identity And The Narrative Identity System
    • Individualism And Economic Value
    • Bibliography
  • Behind The Mask Of Civility: Physiognomy And Unmasking In The Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic (247-268) by Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld   (1M)
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    • The Mask Of Dissimulation
    • The Whole World Is A Masquerade
    • The Mirror And The Mental Looking-Glass
    • Return Of The Physiognomy
    • Bibliography
  • John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, And The Sensibility Of Methodist Society In Wesley’s Journal (1740–91) (269-302) by Michael Mascuch   (541K)
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    • The Journal As A Documentary Text
    • Wesley And Evangelical Journalism
    • Following The Reverend Mr.Wesley
    • Early Methodist Intelligence
    • A Culture Of Fanatic Curiosity
    • Bibliography
  • Self-Made Men And The Civic: Time, Space And Narrative In Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography (303-330) by Donna Loftus   (721K)
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    • Narrative Conventions And Self-Made Men
    • Public And Private
    • Self And Place /Civic Remembrance And Self-Making
    • Time, History And Nostalgia
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Life Writing, Marketing And The Construction Of Cinema History: On The Ghostwritten Autobiography Of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski (331-354) by André Van Der Velden   (457K)
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    • Entrepreneurship And Respectability, Heroism And Pretences
    • Jewish Migration And Ethnic Entrepreneurship In The Film Exhibition Industry
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • “Reading The Body”: Authors’ Portraits And Their Significance For The Nineteenth-Century Reading Public (355-372) by Lisa Kuitert   (577K)
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    • Identity
    • Authors’ Portraits
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements From 1825 Until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits And Partner Profiles (373-386) by Pieter R.D. Stokvis   (165K)
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    • Introduction
    • Matrimonial Advertisements 1825–1925
    • Conclusions And Summary
    • Bibliography
  • Autobiography And Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception Of Autobiographies, 1850–1918 (387-420) by Marijke Huisman   (1M)
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    • “Knowledge Of The People Who Have Lived, Suffered And Struggled Before Us”
    • Eyewitnesses Of History
    • Looking For Realism
    • Personality And Authenticity
    • Separate Circuits
    • From Eyewitness To Personality: Conclusions
    • Bibliography
  • The Politics Of Nostalgia Or The Janus-Face Of Modern Society (421-452) by Henri Beunders   (520K)
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    • The Inequality Of Time
    • Nostalgia And Western Civilization
    • The Origin Of Post-War Nostalgia: The Counter Culture
    • The Politics Of Nostalgia
    • Nostalgia And Popular Culture
    • The Dream Of Total Communication
    • Popular Culture And Nostalgia
    • Conclusion
    • Bibliography
  • Lost Time: Temporal Discipline And Historical Awareness In Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments (453-541) by Arianne Baggerman   (1M)
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    • Introduction
    • A “Rupture In Continuity” As An Autobiographical Impetus
    • Pedagogical Innovations, Time Management, And Self-Discipline
    • Almanacs, Calendar-Diaries, And Pre-Printed Diaries
    • Reasons For Writing
    • Miraculous Infrastructural Changes
    • Bibliography