Introduction: writing childhood memory
Introduction to the present study
Overview: objectives and methods
Childhood autobiography
Remembering: Wordsworth versus the modernists
Memory theory: Freud and the aftermath
The effect of psychoanalytical and psychological memory theory on literature
The importance of things and places in childhood memories
Memory as text: the importance of form
Constructing buried treasure: Proust's childhood memories
Making things out of fear: Rilke and childhood memory
Collecting the past, prefiguring the future: Benjamin remembering his childhood
Conclusion.