By Eugene, Professor Stelzig
ISBN-10: 0754663663
ISBN-13: 9780754663669
Taking into consideration the recognition and diversity of the style, this collaborative quantity considers quite a lot of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, together with working-class autobiography, the generic essay, and the staged presence.
In the wake of Rousseau's Confessions, autobiography grew to become an more and more renowned in addition to a literary mode of writing. via the early 19th century, this hybrid and metamorphic style is located all over the place in English letters, in prose and poetry through women and men of all sessions. As such, it resists makes an attempt to supply a coherent ancient account or identify a neat theoretical paradigm. The members to Romantic Autobiography in England embody the problem, focusing not just on significant writers corresponding to William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, yet on more moderen additions to the canon comparable to Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Hays. There also are essays at the scandalous Memoirs of Mrs. Billington and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as "the pal of Keats." the result's an exploratory and provisional mapping of the sector, provocative instead of exhaustive, meant to motivate destiny scholarship and teaching.
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