After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America 1780-1830University of New Hampshire ; published by University Press of New England, 2001 - 241 pages An analysis of the foundations of autobiography in America. |
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The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America 1780-1830 Stephen Carl Arch. century out of the strands of novel , confession , memoir , biography , cap- tivity narrative , and conversion narrative , self - biographical ...
The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America 1780-1830 Stephen Carl Arch. century out of the strands of novel , confession , memoir , biography , cap- tivity narrative , and conversion narrative , self - biographical ...
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... self - biography or autobiography by a woman writer in this period in America has ca- nonical or even near - canonical status . From Elizabeth Ashbridge's Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge ( 1774 ; wr ...
... self - biography or autobiography by a woman writer in this period in America has ca- nonical or even near - canonical status . From Elizabeth Ashbridge's Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge ( 1774 ; wr ...
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... self - biographical narratives written in America , 1770-1820 . 14. Cf. Edward Gibbon's anecdote about acquiring ... biography in Early American Protestantism [ Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1998 ] , 2 ) . See , more generally , ...
... self - biographical narratives written in America , 1770-1820 . 14. Cf. Edward Gibbon's anecdote about acquiring ... biography in Early American Protestantism [ Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press , 1998 ] , 2 ) . See , more generally , ...
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