1st Edition
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics
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 (1974/1994)
Nisha Ghatak
10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina García’s King of Cuba (2013)
Nadjiba Bouallegue
11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Édouard Louis: Reputation Management between littérature engagée and Creating a Self
Kathrin Engelskircher
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research
Julia Novak
“Epitaph” by Kateřina Tučková: An Auto/Biographical and Reputation-Political Appreciation
Nadja Gernalzick And Martina Klicperova‑Baker
Epitaph
Kateřina Tučkova
Biography
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.
