Controlling time and shaping the self : developments in autobiographical writing since the sixteenth century /
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 541 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Egodocuments and history series ; v. 3 Egodocuments and history series ; v. 3. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102439 |
Table of Contents:
- Controlling Time and Shaping the Self; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE: HISTORICIZING THE SELF; Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830; Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography; Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia's Childhood Memoirs; Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography; Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time; The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America; Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers' Diaries.
- Marking Time: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930sThe Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the "Movement for One's Own History" (Jibunshi); Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922; PART TOW: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING; The Economy of Narrative Identity; Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic.
- John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley's Journal (1740-91)Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography; Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski; "Reading The Body": Authors' Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public; Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles.
- Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society; PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF; Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments.