Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms

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CONTENTS
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Arrangement of the Entries
Format within Entries Acknowledgements
BOARD OF ADVISERS
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CONTRIBUTORS
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ENTRIES
THEMATIC LIST
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Abélard, Peter
Adolescence and Life Writing
Africa: West and Central (Francophone)
Alfieri, Vittorio
Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Life Writing
Arabic Travel Writing
Archives
Aung San Suu Kyi
Australia: 18th- and 19th-Century Diaries and Letters
Australia: 20th-Century Life Writing
Autobiography and Fiction
Bâ, Amadou Hampâté
Bashπ
The Bible
Biographie universelle; Dictionnaire de biographie française
The Body and Life Writing
Britain: Travel, Exploration, and Imperialism
Britain: 20th-Century Letters
Bunyan, John
Canada: Auto/biography to 1900
Canada: Diaries and Letters to 1900
Canada: French Canadian Life Writing
Canetti, Elias
Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo
Childhood and Life Writing
Churchill, Winston
Conduct Books
Confucianism and Life Writing
Conversion and Turning Points
Criminal Autobiography
Dante Alighieri
Dillard, Annie
Dolgorukaia, Natali’ia
Eckermann, Johann
Edwards, Jonathan
Ethnography
Facey, A.B.
Feminism
Finland
France: 20th-Century Auto/biography
Franklin, Benjamin
Gandhi, Mohandas K. [“Mahatma”]
Gender and Life Writing
Germany, Austria, Switzerland: 17th-and 18th-Century Diaries and Letters
al-Ghaz\lı¯
Goldoni, Carlo
Gozzi, Carlo
Guevara, Ernesto [“Che”]
Hagiography
Herzen, Aleksandr
Hoffman, Eva
Horne, Donald 1921–
Huxley, T.H.
The I-Novel
Ibn Batt®ta
Isherwood, Christopher
Italy: 17th- and 18th-Century Auto/biography
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Jacobs, Harriet
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
Judaism and Life Writing
Kafka, Franz
Kazin, Alfred
Korea
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Latin America: 15th to 18th Centuries
Latvia
Leduc, Violette
Leonora Christina
Leopardi, Giacomo
Lewis, C.S.
Liang Qichao
Literary Autobiography
Lorde, Audre
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McCarthy, Mary
Mandel’shtam, Osip
Memoirs
Military Autobiography
Mill, John Stuart
Motivation
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Nabokov, Vladimir
Narayan, R.K.
Nature, the Environment, and Life Writing
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Obituaries
Odinga, Oginga
Päätalo, Kalle
Pedagogy and Life Writing
Perec, Georges
Petrarch
Pioneer and Captivity Writings, American
Pliny the Younger
Portugal: Autobiography
Reconciliation and Life Writing
Roy, Gabrielle
Russia: to 1700
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al-Sa‘dƒw¡, Nawƒl
Sahgal, Nayantara
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Seuse, Heinrich
Sewall, Samuel
Siam
Soyinka, Wole
Spain: 20th Century
Spanish America: Indigenous Life Writing
Sporting Auto/biography
Ssu-ma Ch’ien
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Szász, Béla
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Table Talk
Television and Life Story
Time
Toller, Ernst
Tone, Wolfe
United States: 16th- and 17th-Century
United States: 19th-Century Auto/biography
Varnhagen, Rahel Levin
Vico, Giambattista
Vivekananda, Swami
Voltaire
Wales
Wells, H.G.
Whitman, Walt
Wilde, Oscar
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Xie Bingying
Yeats, W.B.
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Zorrilla y Moral, José
INDEX
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NOTES ON ADVISERS AND CONTRIBUTORS