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Autobiographical writing and British literature, 1783-1834

The word 'autobiography' is a late 18th 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'. This text provides a study of the phenomenon, examining both the conditions and the practice of autobiographical writing
eBook, English, 2005
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005