Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Victorian life writing: genres, print, constituencies, David Amigoni; Diary, autobiography and the practice of life history, Martin Hewitt; Men and women of the time: Victorian prosopographies, Alison Booth; The self in society: middle-class men and autobiography, Donna Loftus; Male masochism: a model of Victorian identity formation, Martin A. Danahay; Promoting a life: patronage, masculinity and Philip Meadows Taylor's The Story of My Life, Trev Lynn Broughton; Excursive discursive in Gandhi's Autobiography: undressing and redressing the transnational self, Julie F. Codell; In the name of the Father: political biographies by radical daughters, Helen Rogers; The deaths of heroes: biography, obits, and the discourse of the press, 1890-1900, Laurel Brake; Sex lives and diary writing: the journals of George Ives, Matt Cook; 'House of Disquiet': the Benson family auto/biographies, Valerie Sanders; Index.

About the Author

David Amigoni is Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University, where he also works on the graduate programme in Victorian Studies. He has published widely on Victorian life writing, and is editor elect of The Journal of Victorian Culture.

Reviews

'David Amigoni's new collection of essays is a decisive confirmation of the current trends in the study of life writing, and will prove, I think, an extremely useful exemplification of developments in this area over the last ten years of so... Authoritative and appealing, David Amigoni's collection contours major debates in the area, and pushes forward important questions about the shape of its continued development.' Biography ’Whether new to the field of life writing or long familiar with its development and debates, Victorianists are sure to find abundant stimulation foward future work as they explore this volume's own innovative ways of thinking.’ Victorian Studies