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Synopsis
Robbins (autobiography and confessional writing, U. College Northampton) explores the simultaneous close link and apparent opposition between subject and object in literature. Her topics include Jean-Jacques Rousseau refusing to play the game in Confessions, Wordsworth's Prelude and De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë's wandering eye/I, James Joyce and self-portraiture, Oscar Wilde's De Profundis as a possible experiment in autobiography, Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Women, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and hyphenated identity. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR