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i C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM A HISTORY OF ENGLISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of auto- biographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts importanttheoreticalcontributionstothefield,thisHistoryincludes wide-rangingessaysthatilluminatethelegacyofEnglishautobiogra- phy. Organised thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde and Woolf. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History is the definitive single-volume collection on English autobiographyandwillserveasaninvaluablereferenceforspecialists andstudentsalike. adam smyth istheA.C.Bradley-J.C.MaxwellTutorialFellowin EnglishLiteratureatBalliolCollege,OxfordandUniversityLecturer intheHistoryoftheBook.HeistheauthorofAutobiographyinEarly ModernEngland(Cambridge,2010)and‘ProfitandDelight’:Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682, and coeditor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary.HewritesregularlyfortheLondonReviewofBooks. ii C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM iii C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM A HISTORY OF ENGLISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY ADAM SMYTH OxfordUniversity iv C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,USA CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107078413 ©AdamSmyth2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData isbn978-1-107-07841-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. v C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM Contents Listofcontributors pageix 1 Introduction:Therange,limits,andpotentialsoftheform 1 AdamSmyth part 1 autobiography before ‘autobiography’ (ca. 1300–1700) 11 2 Medievallife-writing:Types,encomia,exemplars,patterns 13 BarryWindeatt 3 AutobiographicalselvesinthepoetryofChaucer,Gower, Hoccleve,andLydgate 27 DavidMatthews 4 Theradicalismofearlymodernspiritualautobiography 41 MollyMurray 5 Inscribingtheearlymodernself:Thematerialityofautobiography 56 KathleenLynch 6 Re-writingrevolution:Life-writingintheCivilWars 70 SuzanneTrill 7 Money,accounting,andlife-writing,1600–1700:Balancing alife 86 AdamSmyth part 2 religion, gender, things (ca. 1700–1800) 101 8 StructuresandprocessesofEnglishspiritualautobiography fromBunyantoCowper 103 TessaWhitehouse v vi C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM vi Contents 9 ‘Writtenbyherself’:Britishwomen’sautobiographyinthe eighteenthcentury 119 RobertFolkenflik 10 Thelivesofthings:Objects,it-narratives,andfictional autobiography,1700–1800 133 LynnFesta 11 Empiricistphilosophersandeighteenth-centuryautobiography 148 JohnRichetti part 3 the many nineteenth centuries (ca. 1800–1900) 163 12 Working-classautobiographyinthenineteenthcentury 165 DavidVincent 13 Romanticlife-writing 179 DuncanWu 14 Nineteenth-centuryspiritualautobiography:Carlyle,Newman, Mill 192 RichardHughesGibsonandTimothyLarsen 15 Emergingselves:TheautobiographicalimpulseinElizabeth BarrettBrowning,AnneThackerayRitchie,andAnnieWood Besant 207 CarolHanberyMacKay 16 Victorianartists’autobiographies:Transgression,resgestae, andthecollectivelife 221 JulieCodell 17 Victorianprintculture:Periodicalsandseriallives,1830–1860 237 StephenColclough part 4 relational lives and forms of remembering (ca. 1890–1930) 253 18 ‘Fusionsandinterrelations’:FamilymemoirsofHenryJames, EdmundGosse,andothers 255 MaxSaunders 19 Queerlives:Wilde,Sackville-West,andWoolf 269 GeorgiaJohnston vii C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM Contents vii 20 Anecdotalremembrance:FormsofFirstandSecondWorld Warlife-writing 284 HopeWolf 21 Experimentsinform:ModernismandautobiographyinWoolf, Eliot,Mansfield,Lawrence,Joyce,andRichardson 298 LauraMarcus 22 Psychoanalysisandautobiography 313 MaudEllman part 5 kinds of community (ca. 1930–contemporary) 329 23 Poetryandautobiographyinthe1930s:Auden,Isherwood, MacNeice,Spender 331 MichaelO’Neill 24 Documentinglives:MassObservation,women’sdiaries,and everydaymodernity 345 NickHubble 25 PostcolonialautobiographyinEnglish:TheexampleofTrinidad 359 BartMoore-Gilbert 26 Around2000:Memoirasliterature 374 JosephBrooker 27 Illnessnarratives 388 NeilVickers 28 Breakingthepact:Contemporaryautobiographicaldiversions 402 RogerLuckhurst 29 Themachinesthatwriteus:Socialmediaandtheevolution oftheautobiographicalimpulse 417 AndreasKitzmann viii C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM ix C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM List of contributors josephbrookerisReaderinModernLiteratureatBirkbeck,University of London. He is the author of Joyce’s Critics (2004), Flann O’Brien (2005), and Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed (2010), and has edited special issues of New Formations, Textual Practice, and Critical Quarterly. julie codell isProfessorofArtHistoryatArizonaStateUniversityand affiliate faculty in English, Women’s and Gender Studies, Film and MediaStudies,andAsianStudies.ShewroteTheVictorianArtist(2003; rev. ed. 2012) and edited Transculturation in British Art (2012), Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (2012), The Political Economy of Art (2008), and Imperial Co-Histories (2003). She also co- edited Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures (2016, forthcoming), Encounters in the Victorian Press (2004), and Orientalism Transposed (1998). She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Yale’s British Art Center, TheGetty,TheHuntington,theRansomHumanitiesCenter,andthe AmericanInstituteforIndianStudies. stephen colclough is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureintheSchoolofEnglish,BangorUniversity.Heistheauthor ofConsumingTexts:ReadersandReadingCommunities1695-1870(2007) andacontributortoanumberofrecentcollectionsonthehistoryofthe book, including The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume VI-1830-1914(Cambridge2009),TheHistoryofOxfordUniversityPress: Volume II- 1780-1896 (2013), and The Oxford History of the Novel in EnglishVolumeTwo:EnglishandBritishFiction1750-1820(2015). maud ellmann is the Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the DevelopmentoftheNovelinEnglishattheUniversityofChicago.She has written widely on modernism and literary theory, including ix x C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D [1–14]21.10.20156:00PM x Listofcontributors psychoanalysis,feminism,andanimalstudies.Hermostrecentbookis The Nets of Modernism (Cambridge 2009), a study of James, Woolf, Joyce,andFreud. lynn festa isAssociateProfessorofEnglishatRutgersUniversity.Sheis theauthorofSentimentalFiguresofEmpireinEighteenth-CenturyBritain and France (2006), and the co-editor, with Daniel Carey, of The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and PostcolonialTheory(2009). robert folkenflik, edward a. dickson emeritus Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine, writes mainly on eighteenth-century narrative. He has published Samuel Johnson, Biographer (1978), TheEnglish Hero, 1660-1800 (1982),and The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation (1993), as well as editionsofSwift,Smollett,andSterne. nick hubble isReaderinEnglishatBrunelUniversityLondonandthe authorofMass-ObservationandEverydayLife(2006;2ndedn.2010),as wellaschaptersandarticlesonMassObservation.Hewasaco-organiser oftheMassObservation75thAnniversaryConferencein2013. richard hughes gibson isAssociateProfessorofEnglishatWheaton College. He is the author of Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community (2015) as well as essays on RobertBrowning,ThomasHardy,andT.S.Eliot. georgia johnston is Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where she studies the cultures and literature of the early twentieth century. She has particular interests in Modernist autobiography in terms of sexual theories of the period. Her publications include The Formationof20th-centuryLesbianAutobiography(2007). andreas kitzmann is Associate Professor of Humanities at York University, Toronto. He has written widely on the impact of commu- nications technology on the construction and practice of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions. His publications include Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies (2011) and Saved From Oblivion:DocumentingtheDailyfromDiariestoWebCams(2004). timothy larsen isMcManisProfessorofChristianThought,Wheaton College,Wheaton,Illinois.AFellowoftheRoyalHistoricalSociety,he