1. Dangerous confessions : the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically / Tracy Brain
2. Confessing the body : Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the 'real' / Elizabeth Gregory
3. 'To feel with a human stranger' : Adrienne Rich's post-holocaust confession and the limits of identification / Ann Keniston
4. 'Your story. My story' : confessional writing and the case of Birthday letters / Jo Gill
5. Bridget Jones's diary : confessing post-feminism / Leah Guenther
6. 'The memoir as self-destruction' : A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Bran Nicol
7. Truth, confession and the post-apartheid Black consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The cry of Winnie Mandela / Yianna Liatsos
8. Personal performances : the resistant confessions of Bobby Baker / Deirdre Heddon 9. Death sentences : confessions of living with dying in narratives of terminal illness / Ruth Robbins
10. Cultures of confession/cultures of testimony : turning the subject inside out / Susannah Radstone
How we confess now : reading the Abu Graib archive / Leigh Gilmore.