Shame and Modern Writing

Barry Sheils is an Assistant Professor in twentieth and twenty-first century literature at Durham University, where he is also an associate director of the Centre for Cultural Ecologies. He is the author of W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry (Routledge), and co-editor of Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community (Palgrave).Julie Walsh is a Lecturer in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (Palgrave), and co-editor of Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community (Palgrave). She is also a member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh2 Montaigne’s writing: "honteux insolent"?Elizabeth Guild3 Shamefulness and Modernity: remarks on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129Thomas Osborne4 Lyric ShameDenise Riley5 Writing to Spare One’s Blushes: Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and the Automation of ConfidenceChristopher John Müller 6 Between Shame and Guilt: Lord Jim and the Confounding of DistinctionsJames Brown7 Black and Ashamed: Deconstructing Race in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible ManZlatan Filipovic8 The Body that Race Built: Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the ChildSheldon George9 ‘The lyric a form / of shame management’?John Goodby10 Vulnerability and Vulgarity: The Uses of Shame in the Work of Dodie BellamyKaye Mitchell11 Writing Shame and Disgust in Susan Gubar’s Memoir of a Debulked WomanJ. Brooks Bouson12 On Writing-Up: shame and clinical writingOliver Sacks and Julie Walsh13 Shame and PlagiarismCharles Turner14 "Dance Like Nobody's Watching": The Mediated Shame of Academic PublishingMartin Paul Eve15 Cultural Capital and the Shameful UniversityThomas DochertyIndex