The Rise of Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century: Ten Experiments in Literary Genre - Augustine, Bunyan, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Franklin, Gibbon, Sterne, Boswell

by Robert H. Bell

This is the first book where a scholar discussed in great length the struggle to create the new literary genre of autobiography in the 18th century. The author demonstrates the technical difficulties of dealing with this problem by studying major autobiographies of the century.

278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 14, 2013