Romantic Autobiography in England

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
General Editors’ Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction Romantic Autobiography In England: Exploring Its Range and Variety......Page 14
Part 1 The Variety of Women’s Life Writing......Page 26
2 “My Heart Dissolved in What I Saw”: Displacement of the Autobiographical Self in Dorothy Wordsworth and Gertrude Stein......Page 28
3 The Gothic Structure of Mary Robinson’s Memoirs......Page 44
4 Vice, Ugly Vice: Memoirs of Mrs Billington from her Birth......Page 62
5 Writing Lives and Gendering History in Mary Hays’s Female Biography (1803)......Page 76
6 Screen Memories and Fictionalized Autobiography: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and “The Mourner” Fiction and Autobiographical Theories......Page 92
Part 2 Male Self-Fashioning......Page 110
7 Wordsworth’s Cliff-Hanger......Page 112
8 De Quincey as Autobiographer......Page 130
9 The Friend of Keats: The Reinvention of Joseph Severn......Page 144
Part 3 Genres and Modes......Page 156
10 “I am not what I am”: Staged Presence in Romantic Autobiography......Page 158
11 Ned Ludd and Laboring-Class Autobiography......Page 174
12 Wordsworth and the Ragged Legion; Or, The Lows of High Argument......Page 192
13 The Intimate Familiar: Essay as Autobiography in Romanticism......Page 208
Index......Page 224