Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834.

Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834.

The word 'autobiography' is a late eighteenth-century coinage; yet by 1826 it was used as the title for a multi-volume anthology of self-writing, and in 1834 Thomas Carlyle wrote of 'these Autobiographical times of ours'. Over the course of those few decades, readers and writers...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 2005.
Subjects:
1700-1899
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Autobiography in literature.
Autobiography in literature
English literature
Romanticism
Self in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. PRESCRIPTION; 1. The rise of 'autobiography'; 2. The case of Rousseau; 3. Autobiography and the literary public sphere; PART II. PRESCRIPTION/PRACTICE; 4. Autobiography and publication; 5. Biographia Literaria; PART III. PRACTICE; 6. Autobiographical transactions; 7. Childe Harold canto III; 8. Elia; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y

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