ABSTRACT

Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets and clinical writers. It serves as a timely reflection of shame as presented in modern writing, giving added attention to engagements on race, gender, and the question of new media representation.

chapter 1|32 pages

Introduction

Shame and Modern Writing

chapter 2|17 pages

Montaigne’s Writing

“Honteux Insolent”?

chapter 3|18 pages

Shamefulness and Modernity

Remarks on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129

chapter 4|5 pages

Lyric Shame

chapter 5|18 pages

Writing to Spare One’s Blushes

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions and the Automation of Confidence

chapter 6|21 pages

Between Shame and Guilt

Lord Jim and the Confounding of Distinctions

chapter 7|21 pages

Black and Ashamed

Deconstructing Race in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

chapter 8|23 pages

The Body that Race Built

Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child

chapter 10|19 pages

Vulnerability and Vulgarity

The Uses of Shame in the Work of Dodie Bellamy

chapter 12|9 pages

On Writing-Up

Shame and Clinical Writing

chapter 13|14 pages

Shame and Plagiarism

chapter 14|15 pages

“Dance Like Nobody’s Watching”

The Mediated Shame of Academic Publishing