Christina Schönberger-Stepien is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research areas include life-writing, Victorian literature and culture, and working-class literature. She has published essays on autobiographical writing, on the feminist biopic, and on contemporary workingclass anthologies.

• Acknowledgements Towards a Poetics of Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing Embodiment and Self in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal Visuality and Self in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior Personal and Exemplary Grief in Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life The Personal and the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime The Personal and the Political in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton Perspectives and Conclusions Index

Christina Schönberger-Stepien is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research areas include life-writing, Victorian literature and culture, and working-class literature. She has published essays on autobiographical writing, on the feminist biopic, and on contemporary workingclass anthologies.

• Acknowledgements Towards a Poetics of Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing Embodiment and Self in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal Visuality and Self in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior Personal and Exemplary Grief in Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life The Personal and the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime The Personal and the Political in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton Perspectives and Conclusions Index

Christina Schönberger-Stepien is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research areas include life-writing, Victorian literature and culture, and working-class literature. She has published essays on autobiographical writing, on the feminist biopic, and on contemporary workingclass anthologies.

• Acknowledgements Towards a Poetics of Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing Embodiment and Self in Paul Auster’s Winter Journal Visuality and Self in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior Personal and Exemplary Grief in Julian Barnes’s Levels of Life The Personal and the Ethical in J. M. Coetzee’s Summertime The Personal and the Political in Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton Perspectives and Conclusions Index