Life Writing and Space

Eveline Kilian is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Hope Wolf is Lecturer in British Modernist Literature at the University of Sussex, UK.

The Spatial Dimensions of Life Writing

(Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf)

PART I: RELOCATING AND REIMAGINING THE SELF

1. Multiple Occupancy: Residency and Retrospection in Trollope’s Orley Farm and An Autobiography

(Matthew Ingleby)

2. Lost Cities and Found Lives: The ‘Geographical Emotions’ of Bryher and Walter Benjamin

(Andrew Thacker)

3. Hilary Mantel and the Space of Life Writing

(Neil Vickers)

PART II: TRAVERSING SPACES AND TEXTS

4. Literary Configurations of the Peripatetic

(Helga Schwalm)

5. ‘The mystery-magic of foreignness’: Mr Isherwood Changes Places

(Eveline Kilian)

6. Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives

(Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner)

PART III: CONTESTED SPACES, PRECARIOUS LIVES

7. Postcolonial Literary Cartography: Writing the Self in Contemporary Algeria

(Elizabeth H. Jones)

8. Inhabiting the In-Between: (Mis)placing Identity in Katherine Mansfield’s Notebooks

(Kathrin Tordasi)

9. Isaac Rosenberg’s Life in Letters: Between the ‘coil of circumstance’ and a ‘place for poetry’

(Anne-Julia Schoen)

PART IV: SPACE AND THE FORM OF LIFE WRITING

10. Spaces of Intervention: Hélène Cixous’s Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint

(Frédéric Regard)

11. Strandlines: Eccentric Stories, Thoroughfare Poetics and the Future of the Archive

(Hope Wolf)

12. The Columbus of the Near-at-Hand: The Author as Traveller through the Everyday

(James Attlee)

13. There’s No Space Like Home

(Clare Brant)