Acknowledgments
Introduction / Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos
Part I: Diary Theories
1. The Practice of Writing a Diary / Philippe Lejeune and Catherine Bogaert, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
2. Feminist Interpretations of the Diary / Kathryn Carter
3. The Diary Among Other Forms of Life Writing / Julie Rak
Part II: The Creation of a Diary Canon
4. British Diary Canon Formation / Dan Doll
5. The Diary in France and French-Speaking Countries / Michel Braud, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
6. The American Diary Canon / Steven E. Kagle
7. Personal Writings and the Quest of National Identity in Brazil / Sergio da Silva Barcellos
Part III: The Transformation of the Manuscript
8. The Difficult Publication History of the Diaries of Anne Frank / Suzanne L. Bunkers
9. Digitized Diary Archives / Desirée Henderson
Part IV: The Travel Diary
10. British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary / Tim Youngs
11. Travel Diaries in Australia / Agnieszka Sobocinska
12. Travel Diaries in Imperial China / James M. Hargett
Part V: The Private Diary
13. The Contemporary Personal Diary in France / Françoise Simonet-Tenant, translated by Dagmara Meijers-Troller
14. Writing the Self, Writing History in Palestine / Kimberly Katz
15. Sharing Secrets in Nineteenth-Century America / Marilyn Ferris Motz
16. The Literary Author as Diarist / Elizabeth Podnieks
Part VI: The Diary in Political Conflict
17. The American Civil War: Confederate Women's Diaries / Kimberly Harrison
18. The Archive as a Diary of Resistance: Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Revolutionary, 1884-1905 / Elizabeth Baer
19. Diary and Narrative: French Soldiers in World War I / Leonard V. Smith
20. The Stalin-Era Diary / Jochen Hellbeck
21. On Holocaust Diaries / Batsheva Ben-Amos
22. Estonian Women's Deportation Diaries / Leena Kurvet-Kosaar
Part VII: Online Diaries
23. From Puritans to Fitbit: Self-Improvement, Self-Tracking, and How to Keep a Diary / Kylie Cardell
24. Online Diaries and Blogs / Jill Walker-Rettberg
25. A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community / Lena Buford
26. Geocities and Diaries on the Early Web / James Baker
Index