Kilian Eveline - Life Writing and Space

Edited by

EVELINE KILIAN

Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Germany

and

HOPE WOLF

University of Sussex, UK

with the assistance of

KATHRIN TORDASI

Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, Germany

First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Kilian, Eveline / Wolf, Hope. / Tordasi, Kathrin.

Life writing and space / edited by Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf ; with the assistance of Kathrin Tordasi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 9781472427946 (hardback)

1. LCSH: Space in literature. 2. Self in literature.

PN 56.S667 L54 2016

809/.9335dc23

2015022852

ISBN 9781472427946 (hbk)

Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf

Matthew Ingleby

Andrew Thacker

Neil Vickers

Helga Schwalm

Eveline Kilian

Martin Klepper and Alexandra Wagner

Elizabeth H. Jones

Kathrin Tordasi

Anne-Julia Schoen

Frdric Regard

Hope Wolf

James Attlee

Clare Brant

James Attlee has published four non-fiction books: Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between (with Lisa Le Feuvre, Nazraeli Press, 2003), Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey (University of Chicago Press, 2007), Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight (Penguin, 2011) and Station to Station: Searching for Stories on the Great Western Line (Guardian Books, 2015). He has appeared at many literary and cultural festivals in the UK, including Hay and Edinburgh, and was the recipient of awards from The Authors Foundation in 2008 and 2012. He is currently editor at Large for the University of Chicago Press in the UK.

Clare Brant is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at Kings College London, where she also co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research. Her book Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (Palgrave 2006) won the ESSE Book Award for 2008, and she is the author of numerous articles on literature, culture and gender.

Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Queen Mary University of London. Before that he taught at University College London, where he completed his doctorate, which contributed to the Leverhulme-funded Bloomsbury Project. He is writing a monograph that explores the role of fiction in the social production of Bloomsbury between the 1820s and 1904. His research attends to both ends of the long nineteenth century and largely addresses the politics of the cultural representation of urban and coastal space. He has published essays on topics including Victorian building plots, locality in utopia, and bachelor domesticity. He co-edited (with Matthew Beaumont) G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity (2013), and is currently preparing a new critical edition (for Anthem) of R. L. Stevensons Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Elizabeth H. Jones is Lecturer in French at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and space, as well as contemporary French and Francophone life writing. Her publications include Spaces of Belonging: Home, Culture and Identity in 20th Century French Autobiography (Rodopi, 2007), The Space between Geography and Literature(2008) and Autofiction: A Brief History of a Neologism (2009).

Eveline Kilian is Professor of English Literature and Culture at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin. Her major research areas are: metropolitan cultures, modernism and postmodernism, trans/gender and queer theory, gender and ethics. Her book publications include: Queer Futures: Re considering Ethics, Activism and the Political (ed. with Elahe Hashemi Yekani and Beatrice Michaelis, Ashgate 2013), London: Eine literarische Entdeckungsreise (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008), Geschlecht Sverkehrt: Theoretische und literarische Perspektivendes gender-bending (Helmer, 2004) and Momente innerweltlicher Transzendenz:Die Augenblickserfahrung in Dorothy Richardsons Romanzyklus Pilgrimage und ihr ideengeschichtlicher Kontext (Niemeyer, 1997).

Martin Klepper is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin. His publications include: Pynchon, Auster, DeLillo Die amerikanische Postmoderne zwischen Spiel und Rekonstruktion (Campus, 1996), The Discovery of Point of View: Observation and Narration in the American Novel 17901910 (Winter, 2011) and Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective (ed. with Claudia Holler, John Benjamins, 2013). He has also co-edited books on modernism, cybercultures and American economies and has written several essays on postmodernism, visuality and nineteenth-century American literature, American cinema and critical narratology.

Frdric Regard is Professor of English Literature at the Sorbonne, in Paris. He is the author of books on William Golding, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. His publications also include collections of essays on life writing (La Biographie littraire en Angleterre, 1999; LAutobiographie littraire en Angleterre, 2000; Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography, 2003), on exploration narratives (British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other, 2009), and on early Arctic voyages (The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 15761806, 2012; Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century, 2013). His latest book, a monograph on English feminist activist Josephine Butler, was published in 2014.

Anne-Julia Schoen studied Psychology, English and American Literatures and History in Hamburg and at Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin. She is an assistant researcher at the Department of English and American Studies at the HU and at the Department for Jewish Studies at Halle University. Her research interests are modernist art and literature, Anglo-Jewish and First World War literature and art, life writing, gender studies and Jewish scepticism. She is currently finishing her PhD thesis on aspects of form and the formless in Anglo-Jewish literature and art between 1910 and 1937. She has written conference reports and reviews and has co-worked on an English edition of the early modern Rabbi Simone Luzzattos writings.