| Description |
xi, 226 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Ch. 1. The inevitability of fiction -- Hale White and Moore : from autobiographer to fictive narrator -- Newman and de Quincey : the evolution of narrative pattern -- Ch. 2. Childhood : from innocence to experience -- Rousseau and Wordsworth : metaphors of innocence -- Aksakoff, Gorky, De Quincey, and Hudson : innocence lost but memory regained -- Ch. 3. Youth : the heroic journey and the process of art -- Carlyle : fabrication of self -- Wordsworth : revelation of a poetic spirit -- Rousseau : a maze of self-knowledge -- Moore : redemption of self through art -- Ch. 4. Maturity : conversion or descent into the underworld -- Mill : a crisis of identity -- Wordsworth : nurture of the creative soul -- Carlyle : from crisis to rebirth -- Ch. 5. Confession : the hero tells his story -- Saint Augustine, Petrarch, Bunyan -- Rousseau and the nineteenth-century confessional novel -- Conclusion |
| Analysis |
Autobiographical prose in European languages - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [213]-221 |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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| LC no. |
83012508 |
| ISBN |
0807815810 |
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