Bibliography

[Congo Diary]

This bibliography is divided into the following sections:

1. Course Anthology
• Contents
• Sources


2. Recommended Books
• Suggested Primary Reading
• Suggested Secondary Reading

Course Anthology

Contents:

• Jack Henry Abbott: from In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
• As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1971)
• Walter Benjamin: from The Arcades Project (1999)
• Richard Buckle: from Nijinsky (1971)
• Mary Chesnut: from Mary Chesnut's Civil War (1981)
• Mary Chesnut: from The Private Mary Chesnut: the Unpublished Civil War Diaries (1984)
• Kurt Cobain: from Journals (2002)
• Jean Cocteau: from Opium: The Diary of a Cure (1930 / 1958)
• Aleister Crowley: from Diary of a Drug Fiend (1922)
• Lady Daibu: from Poetic Memoirs (1980)
• Daniel Defoe: from A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
• Michael De-la-Noy: from Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer (1984)
• Shelby Foote: from The Civil War: A Narrative (1958-74)
• Lydia Ginzburg: from Blockade Diary (1984 / 1995)
• The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki) (1964)
• Heike Monogatari (1988)
• Alice James: from The Diary (1964)
• Donald Keene: from Travelers of a Hundred Ages (1989)
• Donald Keene: from Modern Japanese Diaries (1999)
• Arthur Koestler: from Dialogue with Death (1942)
• Arthur Koestler: from Spanish Testament (1937)
• Arthur Koestler: from The God That Failed (1950)
• Arthur Koestler: from The Invisible Writing (1954)
• Lu Xun: "Diary of a Madman," from Cheering from the Sidelines (1918-1922)
• Thomas Mallon: from A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries (1984)
• Douglas Mawson: from The Antarctic Diaries (1988)
• Douglas Mawson: from The Home of the Blizzard (1915)
• Romola Nijinsky: from Nijinsky (1933)
• Romola Nijinsky: from The Last Years of Nijinsky (1952)
• Vaslav Nijinsky: from The Diary (1936 / 1999)
• George Orwell: from Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• Samuel Pepys: from The Diary (1665-66)
• Sylvia Plath: from The Journals (1983 / 2001)
• Harrison E. Salisbury: from The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (1969)
• Murasaki Shikibu: from The Diary of Lady Murasaki (1982)
• Murasaki Shikibu: from The Tale of Genji (1976)
• Sei Shōnagon: from The Pillow Book (1967)
• Susan Sontag: from Alice in Bed (1993)
• Wole Soyinka: from The Man Died: Prison Notes (1971)
• Jean Strouse: from Alice James: A Biography (1980))
• Denton Welch: from A Voice through a Cloud (1950)
• Denton Welch: from The Journals (1984)
• Richard West: from The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe, Writer (1998)
• Ruth Bernard Yeazell: from The Death and Letters of Alice James (1981))

Sources:

Abbott, Jack Henry. In the Belly of the Beast. 1981. London: Arrow Books, 1982.

Acocella, Joan, ed. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition. Trans. Kyril Fitzlyon. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1999.

Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Edited by Roy Tiedemann. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. 1999. N. Y.: Belknap Press, 2002.

Bowring, Richard, trans. The Diary of Lady Murasaki. 1982. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.

Buckle, Richard. Nijinsky. 1971. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980.

Cobain, Kurt. Journals. London: Viking, 2002.

Cocteau, Jean. Opium: The Diary of a Cure. 1930. Trans. Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road. 1958. New York: Grove Press, 1980.

Crowley, Aleister. Diary of a Drug Fiend. 1922. London: Abacus, 1979.

Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year. 1722. Ed. Anthony Burgess. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.

De-la-Noy, Michael. Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.

Edel, Leon, ed. The Diary of Alice James. 1964. Introduction by Linda Simon. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999.

Foote, Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative. 3 vols. 1958-74. London: Bloomsbury, 1988.

Ginzburg, Lidiya. Blockade Diary. 1984. Trans. Alan Myers. London: Harvill Press, 1995.

Harries, Phillip Tudor, trans. The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980.

Hughes, Ted, ed. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: Ballantine, 1983.

Keene, Donald. Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries. 1989. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Keene, Donald. Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed through Their Diaries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Koestler, Arthur. Spanish Testament. Trans. Trevor & Phyllis Blewitt. Left Book Club Edition. London: Gollancz, 1937.

Koestler, Arthur. Dialogue with Death. Trans. Trevor & Phyllis Blewitt. 1937. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1942.

Koestler, Arthur. Dialogue with Death. Trans. Trevor & Phyllis Blewitt. 1937. Abridged ed., 1942. Rev. Danube ed., 1966. London: Papermac, 1983.

Koestler, Arthur. "The Initiates: 1." In The God That Failed, ed. Richard Crossman. 1950. New York: Bantam Books, 1959. 11-66.

Koestler, Arthur. The Invisible Writing: An Autobiography 1931-1955. London: Collins with Hamish Hamilton, 1954.

Kukil, Karen V., ed. The Journals of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962. London: Faber, 2001.

Lu Xun. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. 1911-1925. Trans. William A. Lyell. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

McCullough, Helen Craig, trans. The Tale of the Heike. 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Mallon, Thomas. A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries. New York: Ticknor, 1984.

Mawson, Douglas. Mawson’s Antarctic Diaries. Ed. Fred Jacka & Eleanor Jacka. 1988. North Sydney: Susan Haynes / Allen & Unwin, 1991.

Mawson, Sir Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1915.

Mawson, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. 1915. Abridged Popular Edition, 1930. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1996.

Morris, Ivan, trans. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh Century Japan. 1971. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.

Morris, Ivan, trans. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. 2 vols. 1967. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.

Nijinsky, Romola. Nijinsky. 1933. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1960.

Nijinsky, Romola, ed. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. 1936. Berkeley & LA: University of California Press, 1973.

Nijinsky, Romola. The Last Years of Nijinsky. London: Gollancz, 1952.

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.

Pepys, Samuel. The Diary. 1660-69. Ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews. 11 vols. London: Bell & Hyman, 1970-83.

Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. 1969. London: Pan Books, 1971.

Seidensticker, Edward, trans. The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki): The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. 1964. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981.

Shikibu, Murasaki. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Edward Seidensticker. 1976. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.

Sontag, Susan. Alice in Bed: A Play in Eight Scenes. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993.

Soyinka, Wole. The Man Died: Prison Notes. 1971. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.

Strouse, Jean. Alice James: a Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Welch, Denton. A Voice through a Cloud. 1950. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.

Welch, Denton. The Journals. 1952. Ed. Michael De-la-Noy. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.

West, Richard. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe, Writer. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998.

Woodward, C. Vann, ed. Mary Chesnut’s Civil War. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1981.

Woodward, C. Vann & Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. The Private Mary Chesnut: the Unpublished Civil War Diaries. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard, ed. The Death and Letters of Alice James. 1981. Boston: Exact Change Books, 1997.

Recommended Books

Suggested Primary Reading:

Boswell, James. Journals, 1762-95. 12 vols. Ed. Frederick A. Pottle et al. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1950-1989.

Brant, Alice. The Diary of Helena Morley. 1942. Trans. Elizabeth Bishop. 1957. London: Virago, 1979.

Cheever, John. The Journals. Ed. Robert Gottlieb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Darwin, Charles. Journal of Researches. 1845. London: Routledge, 1891.

Darwin, Charles. Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary. Ed. Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. A Writer's Diary. 1873-1881. 2 vols. Trans. Kenneth Lantz. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

Eberhardt, Isabelle. The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt. Trans. Nina de Voogd. Ed. Rana Kabbani. London: Virago, 1987.

Evelyn, John. The Diary. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition. 1952. Ed. Otto H. Frank & Mirjam Pressler. Trans. Susan Massotty. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Gombrowicz, Witold. Diary - Volume 1. 1953-68. Trans. Lillian Vallee. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988.

de Goncourt, Edmond & Jules. Pages from the Goncourt Journals. 1851-96. Trans. Robert Baldick. New York: NYRB Classics, 2006.

Guevara, Ernesto Che. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey. Trans. Ann Wright. London: Verso, 1996.

Kafka, Franz. The Diaries: 1910-1923. Ed. Max Brod. Trans. Willa & Edwin Muir. New York: Schocken Books, 1988.

Kahlo, Frida. The Diary of Frida Kahlo. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. Essay by Sarah M. Lowe. London: Bloomsbury, 1995.

Marchand, Leslie, ed. Byron's Letters & Journals. 13 vols. London: John Murray, 1973-89.

Nin, Anaïs. The Diary. 1931-74. 7 vols. New York: Harvest Books, 1969-1981.

Nin, Anaïs. The Early Diary. 1914-31. 4 vols. New York: Harvest Books, 1980-1986.

Nin, Anaïs. Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-32). 1986. New York: Harvest Books, 1990.

Nin, Anaïs. Incest: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931-32). 1992. New York: Harvest Books, 1993.

Nin, Anaïs. Fire: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1934-1937). New York: Harvest Books, 1996.

Nin, Anaïs. Nearer the Moon: From "A Journal of Love" - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1937-1939). London: Peter Owen, 2003.

Orton, Joe. The Orton Diaries. Ed. John Lahr. London: Methuen, 1986.

Scott, Margaret, ed. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. 2 vols. Lincoln & Wellington: Lincoln University Press & Daphne Brasell Associates, Ltd., 1997.

Scott, Sir Walter. The Journal. Ed. W. E. K. Anderson. Edinburgh: Canongate Classics, 1999.

Tsvetayeva, Marina. Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922. Ed. & trans. Jamey Gambrell. New Haven, Conn: yale University Press, 2002.

Wakeling, Edward, ed. Lewis Carroll's Diaries. 10 vols. London: The Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2007.

Woolf, Virginia. The Diary. 1915-1941. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell with Andrew McNeillie. 5 vols. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979-85.

Woolf, Virginia. A Writer's Diary. Ed. Leonard Woolf. 1953. London: Triad, 1979.

Suggested Secondary Reading:

Bruner, Jerome. Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Chamberlain, Mary, and Paul Thompson, eds. Narrative and Genre. London: Routledge, 1998.

Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.

Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography. NY: Vintage, 1998.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life. New York: Ballantine, 1988.

Kennedy, Gerry & Rob Churchill. The Voynich Manuscript: The unsolved riddle of an extraordinary book which has defied interpretation for centuries. 2004. London: Orion, 2005.

Metzger, Deena. Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992.

Runyan, Willian M. Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984.

Selling, Bernard. Writing from Within: A Guide to Creativity and Life Story Writing. 1988. Alameda, CA: Hunter House, 1998.

Singleton, John, & and Mary Luckhurst, ed. The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers. London: Macmillan, 1996.

Swindells, Julia, ed. The Uses of Autobiography. London: Taylor 1995.