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
