Rousseau and the art of secular confession -- Inventing the family memoir: Edmund Gosse's Father and son -- Mastering the memoir: Woolf and the family legacy -- Orwell's reticence and the need to bear witness -- Remembering in stages: Nabokov's Speak, memory -- Primo Levi's recursive memory -- Imagining the facts in Kingston's memoirs.
Summary
A study of the rise of the memoir through an exploration of works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Gosse, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
