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This Volume Offers An Innovative Reassessment Of The Practice And Theory Of Autobiography In The Nineteenth Century, Calling Upon Both Contemporary And More Recent Interpretative Approaches. One Question That Emerges Is How Far Autobiography Exists As A Separate Genre, And How Far It Is A Necessary And Ubiquitous Impulse. Beyond This Is The Larger Debate As To Whether Autobiographical Texts Express A Prior Essence Or Whether They Are The Site Of Continual Acts Of Self-fashioning. Romantic Self-representation: The Example Of Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters In Sweden / Peter Swaab -- The Shock Of The Old: Wordsworth And The Paths To Rome / Keith Hanley -- Autobiography As Self-indulgence: De Quincey And His Reviewers / Julian North -- The Romance Of Sickliness: Leigh Hunt's Autobiography And The Example Of Keats / Nicholas Roe -- Why Do We Remember Forwards And Not Backwards? / Philip Davis --autobiography And The Illative Sense / William Myers -- Displacing The Autobiographical Impulse: A Bakhtinian Reading Of Thomas Carlyle's Reminiscences / David Amigoni -- Victorian Women As Writers And Readers Of (auto)biography / Joanne Shattock -- Fathers' Daughters: Three Victorian Anti-feminis

Author

Newey, Vincent [editor]; Shaw, Philip [editor];

Publisher

Aldershot, England: Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate Pub. Co.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781859282069

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, History

Updated

2026-03-24