Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics
1st Edition
Published on 29. December 2025
350 pages
978-1-040-40439-3 (ISBN)
Description
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics. The innovative collection is postdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational, with contributions on works from originally seven languages. The authors show how studies in reputation politics and reputation management gain from theory and methodology in research on life writing and how studies in life writing benefit from attention to criteria and terms developed in studies of reputation politics. The genres of the life writing treated include autobiography, autofiction, autosociobiography, autobiographical novel, biofiction, biography, diary, historiography, litterature engagee, political memoir, satire, scholarly article, and presidential campaign speech, and range across historical periods from the Byzantine Empire in late antiquity, early nineteenth-century Netherlands and later nineteenth-century Germany, Greece and the Ottoman Empire, twentieth-century Britain and India, to the United States, France, and Russia in the twenty-first century. In each contribution, principles of reputation politics studies are applied to the fiction and non-fiction features of life writing across various genres and their conventions. Chapters attend to narrative strategies, public relations, gendering, racialization, and class politics. The contributions discuss how reputations are created, changed, destroyed, or saved in auto/biographies and how life writing reputations interact with strategies of personal politics and political programs.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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2 Tables, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
File size
8,15 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-40439-3 (9781040404393)
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Persons
Nadja Gernalzick is an independent researcher in Comparative and American Literature and Media; Private Lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany; and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Edwina Hagen is Assistant Professor of Cultural History of the Early Modern Period in the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Martijn Icks is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam.
Jennifer Keohane is Associate Professor and Director of Oral Communication at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Eric Shiraev is an author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books and other publications in the fields of international relations, politics, political psychology and cross-cultural and comparative studies.
Edwina Hagen is Assistant Professor of Cultural History of the Early Modern Period in the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Martijn Icks is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam.
Jennifer Keohane is Associate Professor and Director of Oral Communication at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Eric Shiraev is an author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books and other publications in the fields of international relations, politics, political psychology and cross-cultural and comparative studies.
Content
Life Writing Reputations: Introduction
Nadja Gernalzick
1 Mobilizing the Imperial Writer: Reputation Strategies in Zakhar Prilepin's Auto/Biographical Writing and Transmedia Self-Fashioning, 2017-2023
Thomas Fritz Maier
2 Political Memoirs and Diaries in the United Kingdom since 1900: Genre, Paratext, and Reputation Management
Richard Toye
3 Political Autobiography in the Postrevolutionary Netherlands: Refashioning Reputations in the Early Nineteenth Century
Edwina Hagen
4 The Demon and the Prostitute: Justinian and Theodora in Procopius's Biographical Secret History from Sixth-Century CE Constantinople
Martijn Icks
5 Character Attacks in Biographies of U.S. Presidents: Psychological Mechanisms
Eric Shiraev 6 Narrating the Authentic Self: Campaign Speeches as Political Autobiography in the United States
Jennifer Keohane
7 Scandals, Auto/Biography, and Reputation Politics: Developing an Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework with Examples from the United States and Germany
Andre Haller and Hendrik Michael
8 Misreading Life Writing: The Schliemann Reputation Transactions between Archaeology, Psychiatry, and Auto/Biography, 1880s to 1990s
Nadja Gernalzick
9 Reclaiming Chastity and Literary Repute in Maitreyi Devi's Life Writing It Does Not Die: A Romance (1976/1994)
Nisha Ghatak
10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina Garcia's King of Cuba (2013)
Nadjiba Bouallegue 11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Edouard Louis: Reputation Management between litterature engagee and Creating a Self Kathrin Engelskircher
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research
Julia Novak
"Epitaph" by Katerina Tuckova: An Introduction
Nadja Gernalzick and Martina Klicperova-Baker
Epitaph
Katerina Tuckova
Nadja Gernalzick
1 Mobilizing the Imperial Writer: Reputation Strategies in Zakhar Prilepin's Auto/Biographical Writing and Transmedia Self-Fashioning, 2017-2023
Thomas Fritz Maier
2 Political Memoirs and Diaries in the United Kingdom since 1900: Genre, Paratext, and Reputation Management
Richard Toye
3 Political Autobiography in the Postrevolutionary Netherlands: Refashioning Reputations in the Early Nineteenth Century
Edwina Hagen
4 The Demon and the Prostitute: Justinian and Theodora in Procopius's Biographical Secret History from Sixth-Century CE Constantinople
Martijn Icks
5 Character Attacks in Biographies of U.S. Presidents: Psychological Mechanisms
Eric Shiraev 6 Narrating the Authentic Self: Campaign Speeches as Political Autobiography in the United States
Jennifer Keohane
7 Scandals, Auto/Biography, and Reputation Politics: Developing an Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework with Examples from the United States and Germany
Andre Haller and Hendrik Michael
8 Misreading Life Writing: The Schliemann Reputation Transactions between Archaeology, Psychiatry, and Auto/Biography, 1880s to 1990s
Nadja Gernalzick
9 Reclaiming Chastity and Literary Repute in Maitreyi Devi's Life Writing It Does Not Die: A Romance (1976/1994)
Nisha Ghatak
10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina Garcia's King of Cuba (2013)
Nadjiba Bouallegue 11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Edouard Louis: Reputation Management between litterature engagee and Creating a Self Kathrin Engelskircher
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research
Julia Novak
"Epitaph" by Katerina Tuckova: An Introduction
Nadja Gernalzick and Martina Klicperova-Baker
Epitaph
Katerina Tuckova
