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r810.9 Am29 2144044 REFERENCE \J ALLENCOUNTY^PUBLICLIBRARY TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEWS The aim of this series is to present the best in con- temporary critical opinion on major authors, pro- viding a twentieth century perspective on their changingstatus in an eraofprofound revaluation. Maynard Mack, SeriesEditor Yale University THE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS Edited by Albert E. Stone Prentice-Hall, Inc. aspectrum book EngIewood Cliffs, N.J. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Mainentryundertitle: TheAmericanautobiography. (Twentiethcenturyviews) (ASpectrumBook) Bibliography p. criticism—1.AAdmderersisceasn,lesistaeyrsa,tulrecet—urHeiss.tory'and 2. Autobiography—Addresses,essays,lectures. I. Stone.AibertE. II. Series. PS169A 810-.9351 81-10530 AACR2 ISBN 0-13-0S4L3A-7 ISBN 0-13-DEMLED-H -CPBK.} MIEN COUNTY PU3UC LIBRARY PORT WAYNE, INDIANA Editorial/productionsupervisionbyAlbertaBodd^ Cover illustration byVivian Berger Manufacturingbuyer: BarbaraA. Frick ©1981 by Prentice-Hall. Inc.. Englewood Cliffs. New Jersey. A SPECTRUM BOOK. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. 987654321 10 Prentice-HallInternational. Inc.(London) Prentice-HallofAustraliaPty. Limited(Sydney) Prentice-HallofCanada, Ltd.(Toronto) Prentice-Hallof IndiaPrivateLimited(XewDelhi) Prentice-HallofJapan, Inc.(Tokyo) Prentice-HallofSoutheastAsiaPte. Ltd.(Singapore) WhitehallBooks Limited Wellington,(NewZealand) Contents 21 14 Introduction: American Autobiographies as Individual Stories and Cultural Narratives byAlbertE. Stone 1 The Proper Study: Autobiographies in American Studies byRobertE. Sayre 11 The Selfas History: Reflections on Autobiography byAlfredKazin 31 Stages of Self: Notes on Autobiography and the Life Cycle by PatriciaMeyerSpacks 44 Unsettling the Colonel's Hash: "Fact" in Autobiography by BarrelMansell 61 Walden and the Temporal Mode ofAutobiographical Narrative byJanet Varner Gunn 80 American Autobiography and Ideology by ThomasEDoherty 95 To Be Black and Blue: The Blues Genre in Black American Autobiography byElizabeth Schultz 109 Inventing theJew: Notes onJewish Autobiography byAlvin H. Rosenfeld 133 The Personal Life Deeply Lived byAnaisNin 157 A Selective Bibliography ofAmericanAutobiography 166 Notes on the Editorand Contributors 176 Index 178 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/americanautobiogOOston

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