Contents

Geoffrey WALL ‑ Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Frédéric REGARD ‑ Topologies of the Self:

Space and Life‑Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Part I ‑ Early Modern Life‑Writing

1. Autobiography

Jürgen SCHLAEGER ‑ Parallel Explorations:

Exploring the Self in the Late Sixteenth and Early

Seventeenth Centuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Lloyd DAvis ‑ Self‑Representation and Travel

Autobiographies in Early Modem England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Helen WILCOX ‑ Margaret Cavendish and the

Landscapes of a Woman's Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Brian GLOVER ‑ Charlotte Charke Is Not Her Job:

The Visual Imagery of Class and Profession in

Charke's Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Pierre LURBE ‑ The Smuggler's Progress:

Captain Harry Carter's Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

2. Biography

Line COTTEGNIES ‑ The Garden and the Tower:

Pastoral Retreat and Configurations of the Self
in the Auto/Biographical Works of Margaret

Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Gérard GÂCON ‑ A Cartographer of Seventeenth‑Century

Selves: John Aubrey's Brief Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Jean VIVIES ‑ Changing Places, or: Johnson Boswellised . . . . 157

Part II ‑ Modern and Modernist Life‑Writing

1. Biography

Monika LEE ‑ Meaning in Silence: Re‑interpreting

Shelley Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Christine REYNIER ‑ The Impure Art of Biography:

Virginia Woolf's Flush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187

Elizabeth HIRSH ‑ Writing as Spatial Historiography:

Woolf's Roger Fry and the National Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

2. Autobiography

Roger PORTER ‑ Thomas De Quincey and Spatial

Disorientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

David AMIGONI ‑ Gothic Choirs and Gothic Fictions:

Habitus, Moral Space and Identity in the

Autobiographies of Ruskin and Newman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Trev Lynn BROUGHTON ‑ Studying the Study: Gender

and the Scene of Authorship in the Writings of Leslie

Stephen, Margaret Oliphant and Anne Thackeray Ritchie . . . . . 247

Victoria CARCHIDI ‑ Creation out of the Void: The Life

and Legends of T.E. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Georgia JOHNSTON ‑ Politics of Retrospective Space in

Virginia Woolf's Memoir "A Sketch of the Past" . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Miriam FUCHS ‑ Mapping Catastrophe: Topography,

Tropology, and Testimony in H.D.'s The Gift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Part III ‑ Postmodern and Postcolonial Life‑Writing

1. Autobiography

Claire BAZIN ‑ "Homelessness of Self": Janet Frame's

Autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Phyllis LASSNER ‑ Elspeth Huxley: The Mystery Saga

of a Colonial Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Gillian WHITLOCK ‑ Disciplining the Child: Recent

British Academic Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

2. Biography

David ELLIS ‑ Letters, and why there should be no more

biographies of Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Frédéric REGARD ‑ Life‑Writing as Mediating Criticism:

Burgess's Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Épilogue

Geoffrey WALL ‑ Flaubert's voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 385