Shame and Modern Writing

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing
• Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh
• 2 Montaigne's writing: 'honteux insolent'?
• Elizabeth Guild
• 3 Shamefulness and Modernity: remarks on Shakespeare's Sonnet 129
• Thomas Osborne
• 4 Lyric Shame
• Denise Riley
• 5 Writing to Spare One's Blushes: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and the Automation of Confidence
• Christopher John Muller
• 6 Between Shame and Guilt: Lord Jim and the Confounding of Distinctions
• James Brown
• 7 Black and Ashamed: Deconstructing Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
• Zlatan Filipovic
• 8 The Body that Race Built: Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child
• Sheldon George
• 9 'The lyric a form / of shame management'?
• John Goodby
• 10 Vulnerability and Vulgarity: The Uses of Shame in the Work of Dodie Bellamy
• Kaye Mitchell
• 11 Writing Shame and Disgust in Susan Gubar's Memoir of a Debulked Woman
• J. Brooks Bouson
• 12 On Writing-Up: shame and clinical writing
• Oliver Sacks and Julie Walsh
• 13 Shame and Plagiarism
• Charles Turner
• 14 "Dance Like Nobody's Watching": The Mediated Shame of Academic Publishing
• Martin Paul Eve
• 15 Cultural Capital and the Shameful University
• Thomas Docherty
• Index