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English Mail Coach
English Opium Eater
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Eugene Stelzig
Fanny Brawne
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Female Biography
female Romantic period autobiographies
Female Worthies
Fisher Men
gender and autobiography
Grasmere Journal
Hays's Female Biography
Hays’s Female Biography
Keats Circle
Keats's Death
Keats’s Death
life writing studies
literary self-fashioning
Literary Self-portrait
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Neglected Genius
nineteenth-century literature
Perilous Ridge
Posthumous Literary Reputation
Raven's Nest
Raven’s Nest
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Robinson's Memoirs
Robinson’s Memoirs
Romantic Autobiography
Sir George Beaumont
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Suspiria De Profundis
William Lisle
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Wordsworth's Journals
Wordsworth's Prelude
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Wordsworth’s Journals
Wordsworth’s Prelude
working-class memoirs
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754663669
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking into account the popularity and variety of the genre, this collaborative volume considers a wide range of English Romantic autobiographical writers and modes, including working-class autobiography, the familiar essay, and the staged presence. In the wake of Rousseau's Confessions, autobiography became an increasingly popular as well as a literary mode of writing. By the early nineteenth century, this hybrid and metamorphic genre is found everywhere in English letters, in prose and poetry by men and women of all classes. As such, it resists attempts to provide a coherent historical account or establish a neat theoretical paradigm. The contributors to Romantic Autobiography in England embrace the challenge, focusing not only on major writers such as William Wordsworth, De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, but on more recent additions to the canon such as Mary Robinson, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Hays. There are also essays on the scandalous Memoirs of Mrs. Billington and on Joseph Severn's autobiographical scripting of himself as "the friend of Keats." The result is an exploratory and provisional mapping of the field, provocative rather than exhaustive, intended to inspire future scholarship and teaching.
Eugene Stelzig is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY-Geneseo, USA
