Title The rise of autobiography in the Eighteenth century : ten experiments in literary genre - Augustine, Bunyan, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Franklin, Gibbon, Fielding, Sterne, Boswell / Robert H. Bell.

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Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

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Contents	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.
Summary	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 deals with autobiography in a thorough manner, it also incorporates historical and philosophical interpretations to the presentation of self in this type of literature. He also demonstrates some of the problems with first person singular writing, which distinguishes this style from other forms of non-
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Autobiography -- History -- 19th century.
	Autobiography.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Biography as a literary form.
	Biography as a literary form.
	Autobiography -- Authorship.
	Autobiography -- Authorship.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Bell, Robert H. Rise of Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century : Ten Experiments in Literary Genre - Augustine, Bunyan, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Franklin, Gibbon, Fielding, Sterne, Boswell. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012 9780773426405
ISBN	9780773411333 (electronic book)
	077341133X (electronic book)

Title The rise of autobiography in the Eighteenth century : ten experiments in literary genre - Augustine, Bunyan, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Franklin, Gibbon, Fielding, Sterne, Boswell / Robert H. Bell.

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