Controlling Time and Shaping the Self

Arianne Baggerman studied history at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has published various books and articles in the fields of book history and cultural history. Professor Baggerman previously taught at the Utrecht University, and is now teaching history at Erasmus and is Professor of Book History at the University of Amsterdam.Rudolf Dekker studied history at the University of Amster¬dam. He has published a number of books and articles on social and cultural history. Recently, he published a survey of the History of the Netherlands.Michael Mascuch read Modern History at Cambridge University. His research has focused on early modern English culture and society. He now teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker and Michael MascuchPART ONE: HISTORICIZNG THE SELFHistoricizing the Self, 1770-1830, Peter BurkeTracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography, James S. AmelangAutobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia’s Childhood Memoirs , Lotte van de PolDrastic History and the Production of Autobiography, Peter FritscheMarc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time, Philippe LejeuneThe Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America, Molly McCarthy Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers’ Diaries, Marilyn HimmesoëteMarking Time: Australian Women’s Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s, Katie HolmesThe Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the “Movement for One’s Own History” (Jibunshi), Petra BuchholzCan There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922, Ofer Nordheimer NurPART TWO: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHINGThe Economy of Narrative Identity, Paul John EakinBehind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic, Eveline Koolhaas-GrosfeldJohn Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley’s Journal (1740-91),Michael MascuchSelf-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography, Donna LoftusLife Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski, André van der Velden“Reading The Body”: Authors’ Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public, Lisa KuitertDutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles, Pieter R.D. StokvisAutobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918, Marijke HuismanThe Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society, Henri BeundersPART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELFLost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments, Arianne Baggerman

"Der vorliegende Band verdeutlicht insgesamt das überaus reiche und anregende Spektrum gegenwärtiger Selbstzeugnisforschung. Außerdem zu loben ist das sorgfältige Lektorat, mit welchem der Band vorbereitet wurde. Überaus hilfreich sind auch die passend ausgewählten Illustrationen und Ausschnitte aus Originalquellen mit Übersetzungen (zum Beispiel S. 45f.). Der Sammelband vermag neue Impulse für weitere Projekte zu geben, die sich mit Selbstzeugnissen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten und Ländern beschäftigen." Julia Hildt, http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2012-2-058.