1. Romantic Confessional Writing in Britain and in France -- 2. Thomas De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater -- 3. Alfred de Musset: La Confession d'un enfant du siecle -- 4. George Sand: La Confession d'une jeune fille -- 5. Charles Lamb: "Confessions of a Drunkard" -- 6. James Hogg: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -- 7. Frederic Soulie, Arnould Fremy, Jules Janin, and the Pattern of Romantic Confessional Writing
Summary
The Romantic Art of Confession is about works specifically entitled "confessions" written during the Romantic period in Britain and France. Reading these similarly conceived texts together illuminates uniquely the Romantic art of confession as it illuminates the written craft of self-recollection and definition
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-139) and index
