"Danahay explains links among Romantic and Victorian autobiographers that have up to now gone unnoticed. He covers a wide range of works and mounts a sophisticated theoretical critique of the autobiographies' concern with self vs. other. Also, he makes good use of ideas outside the field of autobiography studies, which show how his concerns and those of the writers he treats fit in with general intellectual history." — Thomas R. Smith, Pennsylvania State University

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Room of His Own: The Masculine Subject of British Autobiography Autonomy and Community in Nineteenth-Century British Autobiography From Community to Society: Ferdinand Tönnies and Victorian Subjectivity Inner and Outer in Autobiography Chapter One Autobiography and the Loss of Community: From Augustine's Confessions to Wordsworth's The Prelude Chapter Two The Liminal Subject of Romantic Autobiography Chapter Three Romantic Anti-Autobiography and Repression Chapter Four From Romantic to Victorian Autobiography Ruskin, Tennyson, and the Loss of Nature "A Profound Duplicity of Life": Repression and the Split Subject of Victorian Autobiography Chapter Five Subjected Autonomy in Victorian Autobiography: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Gosse Chapter Six "Dialogue of the Mind with Itself": Matthew Arnold and Monologism Conclusion Virginia Woolf and the Prison of Consciousness Works Cited Index

"Danahay explains links among Romantic and Victorian autobiographers that have up to now gone unnoticed. He covers a wide range of works and mounts a sophisticated theoretical critique of the autobiographies' concern with self vs. other. Also, he makes good use of ideas outside the field of autobiography studies, which show how his concerns and those of the writers he treats fit in with general intellectual history." — Thomas R. Smith, Pennsylvania State University

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Room of His Own: The Masculine Subject of British Autobiography Autonomy and Community in Nineteenth-Century British Autobiography From Community to Society: Ferdinand Tönnies and Victorian Subjectivity Inner and Outer in Autobiography Chapter One Autobiography and the Loss of Community: From Augustine's Confessions to Wordsworth's The Prelude Chapter Two The Liminal Subject of Romantic Autobiography Chapter Three Romantic Anti-Autobiography and Repression Chapter Four From Romantic to Victorian Autobiography Ruskin, Tennyson, and the Loss of Nature "A Profound Duplicity of Life": Repression and the Split Subject of Victorian Autobiography Chapter Five Subjected Autonomy in Victorian Autobiography: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Gosse Chapter Six "Dialogue of the Mind with Itself": Matthew Arnold and Monologism Conclusion Virginia Woolf and the Prison of Consciousness Works Cited Index

"Danahay explains links among Romantic and Victorian autobiographers that have up to now gone unnoticed. He covers a wide range of works and mounts a sophisticated theoretical critique of the autobiographies' concern with self vs. other. Also, he makes good use of ideas outside the field of autobiography studies, which show how his concerns and those of the writers he treats fit in with general intellectual history." — Thomas R. Smith, Pennsylvania State University

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Room of His Own: The Masculine Subject of British Autobiography Autonomy and Community in Nineteenth-Century British Autobiography From Community to Society: Ferdinand Tönnies and Victorian Subjectivity Inner and Outer in Autobiography Chapter One Autobiography and the Loss of Community: From Augustine's Confessions to Wordsworth's The Prelude Chapter Two The Liminal Subject of Romantic Autobiography Chapter Three Romantic Anti-Autobiography and Repression Chapter Four From Romantic to Victorian Autobiography Ruskin, Tennyson, and the Loss of Nature "A Profound Duplicity of Life": Repression and the Split Subject of Victorian Autobiography Chapter Five Subjected Autonomy in Victorian Autobiography: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Gosse Chapter Six "Dialogue of the Mind with Itself": Matthew Arnold and Monologism Conclusion Virginia Woolf and the Prison of Consciousness Works Cited Index