The Cambridge companion to autobiography /
The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography offers a historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian and modern eras. Seventeen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diver...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Maria DiBattista and Emily O. Wittman
- Part I. Foundations
- Augustine's confessions / Adam Becker
- Medieval European autobiography / John V. Fleming
- Montaigne and the crisis of autobiography / Lawrence D. Kritzman
- Rousseau's autobiographies / Eli Friedlander
- Part II. Consolidations
- Romantic autobiography / Frances Wilson
- Victorian autobiography: sons and fathers / Deborah Epstein Nord
- American autobiography and history / Robert F. Sayre
- Part III. Deflections
- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche / Alastair Hannay
- Pessoa / Alfred MacAdam
- Transgressors: Andre Gide and Jean Genet / Jean-Michel Rabate
- Part IV. Prisms
- The true purpose of autobiography, or the fate of Vladmir Nabokov's Speak, Memory / Leland de la Durantaye
- African American autobiography / Trudier Harris
- Holocaust memoirs: writing forgetfully / Michael Bernard-Donals
- Women's autobiographies / Maria DiBattista
- The 'new' memoir / Patrick Madden
- Wending artifice: creative non-fiction / Mary Cappello.