Additional bibliography for study
Compulsory
Botonaki, Effie. “Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Spiritual Diaries: Self-Examination, Covenanting, and Account Keeping.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, 30: 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 3-21.
Gusdorf, Georges. “Conditions and Limits of Autobiography.” In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton U P, 1980, pp. 28-48. (CT25.A95)
Mason, Mary. “The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers.” In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Ed. James Olney. Princeton U P, 1980, pp. 207-235. (CT25.A95)
Optional
Anderson, Linda. Autobiography. London: Routledge, 2001. Read pp. 18-27 (on Augustine’s Confessions). (CT25.A53)
Calzati, Stefano and Roberto Simanowski. “Self-narratives on social networks: trans-platform stories and Facebook’s metamorphosis into a postmodern semiautomated repository.” Biography 41:1 (Winter 2018), pp. 24-47.
DiBattista, Calzati and Emily O. Wittman, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Chapter 2 (pp. 23-34), by A. H. Becker, on Augustine’s Confessions, and Chapter 4 (pp. 49-57), by L. D. Kritzman, on Montaigne and autobiography. (CT25.C355)
Eakin, Paul John. “Does Autobiography Have a Future?” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 32:2 (2017), pp. 271-273.
Lejeune, Philippe. On autobiography. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. (CT25.L37)
Marcus, Laura. Autobiography: a very short introduction. 2018. (CT25.M37)
Millim, Anne-Marie. “The Victorian Diary: Between the Public and the Private.” Literature Compass (2010): 977–988.
Peterson, Linda H. Victorian autobiography: the tradition of self-interpretation. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1986. (CT25.P47)
Simons, Judy. Diaries and journals of literary women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1990, pp. 169-188. (PR908.S56)
Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson. “The Visual-Verbal-Virtual Contexts of Life Narrative.” Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010, pp. 167-168, 183-191. (CT25.S595)
Wiltshire, John. “Early nineteenth-century pathography: the case of Frances Burney.” Literature and History 2: (Fall 1993), pp. 9-23.