Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Shame and Modern Writing -- 2 Montaigne's Writing: "Honteux Insolent"? -- 3 Shamefulness and Modernity: Remarks on Shakespeare's Sonnet 129 -- 4 Lyric Shame -- 5 Writing to Spare One's Blushes: Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and the Automation of Confidence -- 6 Between Shame and Guilt: Lord Jim and the Confounding of Distinctions -- 7 Black and Ashamed: Deconstructing Race in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- 8 The Body that Race Built: Shame, Trauma and Lack in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child -- 9 "The Lyric a Form / of Shame Management"? -- 10 Vulnerability and Vulgarity: The Uses of Shame in the Work of Dodie Bellamy -- 11 Writing Shame and Disgust in Susan Gubar's Memoir of a Debulked Woman -- 12 On Writing-Up: Shame and Clinical Writing -- 13 Shame and Plagiarism -- 14 "Dance Like Nobody's Watching": The Mediated Shame of Academic Publishing -- 15 Cultural Capital and the Shameful University -- Index