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Acknowledgements  Introduction  Authors and Subjects  The Law of Genre  Poststructuralist Interventions  1. Historians of the Self  Saint Augustine’s Confessions  Non-conforming Selves: John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding  Serial Selves: James Boswell and Hester Thrale  Sublime Egos: Rousseau and Wordsworth 2. Subjectivity, Representation and Narrative  Freud’s Unconscious  Barthes’ Autobiographical Signs  Derrida and the Traces of Autobiography  Feminism and Poststructuralism  3. Other Subjects  Gender, Modernism and Autobiography  Locating Difference  Landscape for a Good Woman  Postcolonial Subjects  4. Narrative  Contemporary Memoir Writing  5. Practising Autobiography  Personal Criticism  Testimony and Memory  Politics and Memory  Glossary  Bibliography  Index