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The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (Paperback)
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The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (Paperback)
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Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the
Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a
subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these
autobiographies intertextually and as a historically defined genre
that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as a referential
art. The plots of Victorian autobiographies are highly variable in
terms of developing motifs and tropes. Autobiographers undergo
spiritual and mental crises, live out Romantic and biblical myths,
follow historical and scientific paradigms and the dynamic patterns
of their own ideas. Nevertheless, underlying this diversity are
profound structural similarities in plots of self-development and
the implied relationships between self and public works and ideas.
In the course of discussing eleven Victorian autobiographies in
chronological order, Machann suggests many formal and conventional
continuities among them. The eleven autobiographies include those
of John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, John Ruskin, and Charles
Darwin, among other luminaries of the Victorian era. Juxtaposing
well-known works with less familiar ones, Machann helps the reader
to explore the boundaries of the genre, appreciate stylistic
variations, and identify profound structural similarities, all of
which result from the larger Victorian culture. The book will be of
interest to students of the Victorian era as well as scholars of
life-writing and historical constructions of the self.
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