1. Introduction: the institution of autobiography Robert Folkenflik; 2. Theory versus autobiography John Sturrock; 3. The autobiographical process Jerome Bruner; 4. Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography Julia Watson; 5. Institutionalizing women's autobiography: nineteenth-century editors and the shaping of an autobiographical tradition Linda H. Peterson; 6. Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography Lindon Barrett; 7. The Mexican immigrant as *: the (de) formation of Mexican immigrant life story Genaro M. Padilla; 8. What happened in Mecca: Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik Barbara D. Metcalf; 9. 'In me the solitary sublimity': posturing and the collapse of romantic will in Bejamin Robert Haydon Roger J. Porter; 10. Hogarth's self-representations Ronald Paulson; 11. The self as other Robert Folkenflik; Notes; Index.
