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"The book uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation since 1981 to explore the social and cultural history of late-twentieth-century Britain. Prompted by thrice-yearly open-ended questionnaires, Mass Observations volunteers wrote about their political attitudes, religious beliefs, work, childhoods, education, friendships, marriages, sex lives, mid-life crises, aging, the whole range of human emotion, feeling, attitudes, and experience. At the core of the book are seven biographical essays, intimate portraits of individual lives set in the context of the shift towards a more tolerant and permissive society from the 1960s and of the rise of Thatcherite neo-liberalism as the structures of Britains post-war settlement crumbled from the later 1970s. The mass observers featured in the book, four women and three men, are drawn from across the social spectrum, wife of a small businessman, teacher, social worker, RAF wife, mechanic, lorry driver, banker: all active and forceful characters with strong opinions and lives crowded with struggle and drama. All of them were born before the Second World War, so they experienced the changing shape of post-1960s Britain as already fully formed adults. The honesty and frankness with which they wrote about themselves takes us below the surface of public life to the efforts of ordinary, but exceptionally articulate and self-reflective, people to make sense of their lives in rapidly changing times."

"The late 19th to early 20th century was a period of great transformation in Koreanliterature. However, change was also accompanied by continuity, with works thatinherited or utilized the styles of pre-modern periods existing alongside works ofa new stylistic form. This was the situation for &ldquoself-narrative&rdquo works which lookedback upon, recorded and evaluated the meaning of a person&rsquos life. Prior to themodern period, works that took the writer&rsquos own life as the subject matter were rarein traditional East Asian literature as the European tradition of writing confessionswas absent. As a result, the autobiography, in the European sense, did not exist.Nevertheless, self-narrative works which took on the forms of other pre-existingliterary genres can be observed. Examples of self-narrative works which utilizedtraditional literary forms can also be found in the Korean literature of the late 19th toearly 20th century. These works differ from European autobiographies in terms theirobjectivity and style their characteristic features are the way in which the historicalcircumstances of the time, which are not harmonious, are reflected and how thetransformation of the social group, rather than the individual, is emphasized. On theother hand, self-narrative works which adopted new literary styles from Europe orJapan also began to appear, produced by individuals who had become familiar withthe Christian tradition or who had studied abroad. Examples of this can be foundin the works of An Jungg?n, Jang ?ngjin and Yi Kwangsu which demonstrate theadoption of new techniques that allow confessions or the disclosure of the writer&rsquosinner side. These new forms of self-narrative cannot be regarded, in terms of theircontent and theme, as representing a development but their unique significancecannot be denied as well."