The culture of autobiography : constructions of self-representation / edited by Robert Folkenflik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-265) and index.

Introduction : the institution of autobiography / Robert Folkenflik -- Theory versus autobiography / John Sturrock -- The autobiographical process / Jerome Bruner -- Toward an anti-metaphysics of autobiography / Julia Watson -- Institutionalizing women's autobiography : nineteenth-century editors and the shaping of an autobiographical tradition / Linda H. Peterson -- Self-knowledge, law, and African American autobiography : Lucy A. Delaney's From the darkness cometh the light / Lindon Barrett -- The Mexican immigrant as * : the (de)formation of Mexican immigrant life story / Genaro M. Padilla -- What happened in Mecca : Mumtaz Mufti's Labbaik / Barbara D. Metcalf -- "In me the solitary sublimity" : posturing and the collapse of romantic will in Benjamin Robert Haydon / Roger J. Porter -- Hogarth's self-representations / Ronald Paulson -- The self as other / Robert Folkenflik.