This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers.

Christina Schönberger-Stepien is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Augsburg in Germany. Her research areas include life-writing, Victorian literature and culture, and working-class literature. She has published essays on autobiographical writing, on the feminist biopic, and on contemporary workingclass anthologies.