Mortal Pages, Literary Lives

Description:

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.

subjects: Autobiography,  Biographies,  American prose literature,  American Authors,  Geschichte,  Prose anglaise,  Autobiografie,  Ecrivains americains,  Ecrivains anglais,  Autobiographie anglaise,  English prose literature,  Intellectual life,  History and criticism,  Histoire et critique,  English Authors,  Engels,  Englisch,  Prosa,  Autobiografische Literatur,  Aufsatzsammlung,  Autobiografiee˜n,  Prose americaine,  Biography,  Autobiographie

Places: Englisch,  English-speaking countries,  USA

Times: 19e siecle,  19th century