The rise of autobiography in the Eighteenth century : ten experiments in literary genre - Augustine, Bunyan, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Franklin, Gibbon, Fielding, Sterne, Boswell /
Bell utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach to studying autobiography in the 18th Century. Making use of religion and philosophy, history and literature, contemporary theory and humanism, his original analysis offers a unique array of disciplinary interpretations of the genre. This book not only de...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by Charles H. Karelis; Preface; Acknowledgements; What's Past is Prologue; Chapter One: Soul-Experiments and Conversion Narratives; Chapter Two: Personal Identity and Empirical Inquiry; Chapter Three: Life Stories and Enlightenment Discovery; Chapter Four: Laurence Sterne's Autobiographical Personae; Chapter Five: James Boswell By Himself; Epilogue: Autobiography and Literary Criticism.