Coleridge, Wordsworth, and romantic autobiography

Description:

At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, Wordsworth's and Coleridge's writings provided significant instances of the emerging genre of autobiography. In their writings particular eighteenth-century notions of textuality and self-representation serve to define the practice of autobiographical writing during the Romantic period. This account of Romantic autobiographical writing employs theoretical insights gained from poststructuralist analyses of language and subjectivity and brings to those insights a focus on the historical and material circumstances of individual human beings as they attempt to define themselves and their times in and through writing. In examining the way in which Wordsworth's and Coleridge's autobiographical projects intertwine at both a textual and a personal level, this study provides an important account of the way in which Romantic autobiography constitutes a response to the conditions of authorship and textual authority that arise at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth.

subjects: Autobiography,  Biography,  English Poets,  English literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Narration (Rhetoric),  Romanticism,  Self in literature,  Biographia literaria (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor),  Romantisme,  Biographies,  Litterature anglaise,  Prelude (Wordsworth, William),  Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature,  Histoire et critique,  Poetes anglais,  Narration,  Autobiographie,  Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834,  Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Romanticism, great britain

People: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834),  William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Places: England

Times: 19th century