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Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834 (Hardcover)
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Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834 (Hardcover)
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The word 'autobiography' is a late eighteenth-century coinage; yet
by 1826 it was used as the title for a multi-volume anthology of
self-writing, and in 1834 Thomas Carlyle wrote of 'these
Autobiographical times of ours'. Over the course of those few
decades, readers and writers came to recognize and name a new
genre. This book is the first full study of the phenomenon,
examining both the conditions and the practice of autobiographical
writing in Romantic literature. Historians of autobiography have
often pointed to the turn of the nineteenth century as a pivotal
moment. In Rousseau and De Quincey's 'Confessions', Wordsworth's
'Prelude', and other canonical documents, it has been argued,
self-writing begins to serve the purpose of expressing the
individuality, autonomy, and interiority of the self. A more
wide-ranging view of the actual state of autobiography at the time
exposes this narrative as a misrepresentation. Self-writing does
gain a new kind of prominence around 1800; not, however, because it
articulates 'Romantic' ideologies of selfhood, but because it
becomes a focus of scrutiny, and of contention. The decades of the
Romantic period identified themselves as 'Autobiographical times' -
but did so anxiously. This book asks: what forms did that
recognition and that anxiety take within the literary culture of
the period? What did autobiography mean to Romantic readers and
writers? How do autobiographical texts of the period reflect,
express, and negotiate these conditions? As well as reading a wide
variety of those documents, with single chapters devoted to works
by Coleridge, Byron, and Lamb, Treadwell examines writing on and
around autobiography: essays, reviews, and other forms of
commentary. By preserving a continuous relation between the texts
and their contexts, this book offers the first proper study of what
is actually meant by 'Romantic autobiography'.
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