Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783-1834 [Hardcover]

What did autobiography mean to Romantic readers and writers? How do autobiographical texts of the period reflect, express, and negotiate these conditions? Answering these questions and more, James Treadwell examines a wide variety of Romantic texts, with single chapters devoted to works by Coleridge, Byron, and Lamb. By preserving a continuous relation between the texts and their contexts, this book offers the first proper study of what is actually meant by Romantic autobiography.

Prescription
1. The Rise of 'Autobiography'
2. The Case of Rousseau
3. Autobiography and the Literary Public Sphere
Prescription/Practice
4. Autobiography and Publication
5. 'Biographia Literaria'
6. Autobiographical Transactions
7. 'Childe Harold' Canto III
8. 'Elia'
Bibliography

A closely reasoned book. --Elizabeth Helsinger,Studies in English Literature

James Treadwellwas formerly Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, Montreal.