Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination

Male Confessions examines how men open their intimate lives and thoughts to the public through the form of confessional writing. Such writing reveals the interior struggle men are willing to share with a larger audience under particular personal circumstances and at particular moments of history. All the texts examined here- which range from Augustine's Confessions, to the memoir of a Jewish ghetto policeman during World War II, to the conversion narrative of an imprisoned high-ranking Nazi...