Selfhood in History: 1500 to the present
Introductory reading
Colley, L. The ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh : a woman in world history. (London, 2007)
Davis, N. Z. Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds. (London,
2007).
Davis, N. Z. (1995). Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives. Cambridge,
Harvard University Press.
Lacey, Nicola A Life of HLA Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream (Oxford University
Press, 2004)
Rosenwein, Barbara, Anger’s Past
Spence, J. D. The memory palace of Matteo Ricci. (London, 1985)
Main reading
Charles Taylor Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity, London 1989
L.L. Whyte, The Unconscious before Freud, 1960
Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds., History and Psyche, London 2012
R. Dekker, Egodocuments and history: autobiographical writing in its social context since
the middle ages (2002)
Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Ridyard, ed., Sin in Medieval and Early Modern
Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, ed. (York: York Medieval Press,
2012).
Erik Erikson, Young Man Luther, New York and London 1958
Groebner, V, Defaced. The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages, 2004
Groebner, V. (2007). Who are you? Identification, deception, and surveillance in early
modern Europe. New York, Zone Books.
García-Arenal, M. and G. A. Wiegers (2003). A man of three worlds : Samuel Pallache, a
Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Murre-Van den Berg, H.L. "'I the Weak Scribe', Scribes in the Church of the East in the
Ottoman Period." Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 58, no. 1-2 (2006): 9-26.
O'Brien, M. (2010). Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon.
London, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Alryyes, A. (2011). A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said. Madison,
University of Wisconsin.
Rothschild, E. (2011). The inner life of empires : an eighteenth-century history. Princeton,
Princeton University Press.
Ogborn, M. (2008). Global lives : Britain and the world, 1550-1800. Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press.
Elger, Ralf, and Yavuz Köse. Many Ways of Speaking About the Self : Middle Eastern EgoDocuments in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish (14th-20th Century). Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2010.
Subrahmanyam, S. (2011). Three Ways to Be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early
Modern World, University Press of New England
Lepore, J. (2001). ‘Historians who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and
Biography.’ Journal of American History 88(1): 129-144.
Eric Dursteler, Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early
Modern Mediterranean, 2008
Filippo de Vivo, ‘Prospect or refuge? Microhistory, History on the Large Scale: A
Response’, Cultural & Social History 7 (2010), pp. 387-397.
Francesca Trivellato, ‘Is there a future for Italian Microhistory in the Age of Global
History?’, California Italian Studies 2.1 (2011), pp. 1-24.
M. Chamberlain & P. Thompson (eds.), Narrative and genre (1998)
C. Steedman, Past Tenses (1992)
G.J. Clifford, ‘History as experience: the uses of personal-history documents in the
history of education’, History of education, 7 (1978) 183-96
L. Marcus, Autobiographical discourses: theory criticism, practice (1994)
T. Cosslett et al (eds), Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods (2000).
Gananath Obeyesekere – ‘Personal identity and Cultural Crisis: The case of
Anagarika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka’, in Frank E. Reynolds and Donald Capps, The
Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychology of Religion, (Mouton: The
Hague, Paris, 1976).
Gananath Obeyesekere, The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
(New York, Columbia University Press, 2012).
Peter Novick, The Holocaust and Collective Memory: The American Experience, London,
2000
Dinora Pines, A Woman’s Unconscious Use of her Body: A Psychoanalytical Perspective,
London, 1993
Mark Roseman, The Past in Hiding, London, 2000
Nicholas Stargardt, Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives under the Nazis, London, 2005
Zoe Waxman, Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation, Oxford, 2006
Source material (this list will be added to):
The complete letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 3 vols, edited by Robert Halsband,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-67
Menetra, Jacques, Journal of my life, 1989
Richard Gough, A History of Myddle
Martin Luther, Letters (3 vols) and Table Talk
Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln translated by Marvin Lowenthal, 1977
Mass Observation Archive.
North-west Sound Archive.
Feminist Archive South (Bristol)
C. Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman
M. Forster, Hidden Lives
M. Wandor (Ed.), Once a Feminist (1990)
H. Cuhna, Woman between mirrors (1989)
A. Shua, The Book of Memories
Jill Ker Conway, The Road From Coorain
V. Brittain, Testament of Youth
C. Heilbrun, Mirror Writing
A. Oakley Taking it Like a Woman
Tierl Thompson (ed.), Dear Girl: The Diaries and Letters of two Working Women (18971917) (The Women's Press, 1987)
Dawid Sierakowiak, The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Łódź
Ghetto, ed. Alan Adelson, Oxford, 1996
Yitskhok Rudashevski, The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto: June 1941-April 1943, Tel Aviv,
1973
Alexandra Zapruder, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, New
Haven, 2002
Primo Levi, If this is Man, London, 2004
Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After, New Haven, 1995
Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its
Realities, Bloomington, 1980
Saul Friedländer, When Memory Comes, New York 1979
Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and
Imagination, London, 2013