Series page

pp iii-iv

The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Chronology

pp xv-xx

1 - Introduction

pp 1-20

Part I - Foundations

pp 21-68

2 - Augustine’sConfessions

pp 23-34

3 - Medieval European Autobiography

pp 35-48

4 - Montaigne and the Crisis of Autobiography

pp 49-57

5 - Rousseau’s Autobiographies

pp 58-68

Part II - Consolidations

pp 69-116

6 - Romantic Autobiography

pp 71-86

7 - Victorian Autobiography

pp 87-101

8 - American Autobiography and History

pp 102-116

Part III - Deflections

pp 117-162

9 - Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

pp 119-132

10 - Pessoa

pp 133-147

11 - Transgressors

pp 148-162

Part IV - Prisms

pp 163-252

12 - The True Purpose of Autobiography, or the Fate of Vladimir Nabokov’sSpeak, Memory

pp 165-179

13 - African American Autobiography

pp 180-194

14 - Holocaust Memoirs

pp 195-207

15 - Women’s Autobiographies

pp 208-221

16 - The “New Memoir”

pp 222-236

17 - Wending Artifice

pp 237-252

Index

pp 253-259