Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century
Edited by Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker and Michael Mascuch
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Biographical note
Arianne Baggerman studied history at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has published various books and articles in the fields of book history and cultural history. Professor Baggerman previously taught at the Utrecht University, and is now teaching history at Erasmus and is Professor of Book History at the University of Amsterdam.
Rudolf Dekker studied history at the University of Amster¬dam. He has published a number of books and articles on social and cultural history. Recently, he published a survey of the History of the Netherlands.
Michael Mascuch read Modern History at Cambridge University. His research has focused on early modern English culture and society. He now teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.
Rudolf Dekker studied history at the University of Amster¬dam. He has published a number of books and articles on social and cultural history. Recently, he published a survey of the History of the Netherlands.
Michael Mascuch read Modern History at Cambridge University. His research has focused on early modern English culture and society. He now teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.
Editorial Board
Advisory Board
James Amelang, Universidad Autónoma Madrid
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College Cambridge
Philippe Lejeune, Emeritus, Université de Paris-Nord
Claudia Ulbrich, Freie Universität Berlin
James Amelang, Universidad Autónoma Madrid
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College Cambridge
Philippe Lejeune, Emeritus, Université de Paris-Nord
Claudia Ulbrich, Freie Universität Berlin
Readership
All those interested in the history of autobiographical writing, and in cultural history in general.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker and Michael Mascuch
PART ONE: HISTORICIZNG THE SELF
Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830, Peter Burke
Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography, James S. Amelang
Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia’s Childhood Memoirs , Lotte van de Pol
Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography, Peter Fritsche
Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time, Philippe Lejeune
The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America, Molly McCarthy
Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers’ Diaries, Marilyn Himmesoëte
Marking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s, Katie Holmes
The Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the “Movement for One’s Own History” (Jibunshi), Petra Buchholz
Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922, Ofer Nordheimer Nur
PART TWO: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING
The Economy of Narrative Identity, Paul John Eakin
Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld
John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley’s Journal (1740-91),
Michael Mascuch
Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, Donna Loftus
Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski, André van der Velden
“Reading The Body”: Authors’ Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public, Lisa Kuitert
Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles, Pieter R.D. Stokvis
Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918, Marijke Huisman
The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society, Henri Beunders
PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF
Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments, Arianne Baggerman
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker and Michael Mascuch
PART ONE: HISTORICIZNG THE SELF
Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830, Peter Burke
Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography, James S. Amelang
Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia’s Childhood Memoirs , Lotte van de Pol
Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography, Peter Fritsche
Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time, Philippe Lejeune
The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America, Molly McCarthy
Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers’ Diaries, Marilyn Himmesoëte
Marking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s, Katie Holmes
The Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the “Movement for One’s Own History” (Jibunshi), Petra Buchholz
Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922, Ofer Nordheimer Nur
PART TWO: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING
The Economy of Narrative Identity, Paul John Eakin
Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld
John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley’s Journal (1740-91),
Michael Mascuch
Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, Donna Loftus
Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski, André van der Velden
“Reading The Body”: Authors’ Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public, Lisa Kuitert
Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles, Pieter R.D. Stokvis
Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918, Marijke Huisman
The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society, Henri Beunders
PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF
Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments, Arianne Baggerman
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