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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	810.9492 A512AA	Check Shelf

Description	vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
	Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction / Paul John Eakin -- [Part I. Four centuries of American autobiography] -- The prehistory of American autobiography / Daniel B. Shea -- Autobiography in the American Renaissance / Lawrence Buell -- 'Self'-conscious history : American autobiography after the Civil War / Susanna Egan -- Modern American autobiography : texts and transactions / Albert E. Stone -- [Part II. Varieties of American autobiography] -- The making of ethnic autobiography in the United States / William Boelhower -- Immigrant autobiography : some questions of definition and approach / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong -- Native American autobiography and the synecdochic self / Arnold Krupat -- African-American autobiography criticism : retrospect and prospect / William L. Andrews -- Nineteenth-century autobiographies of affiliation : the case of Catharine Sedgwick and Lucy Larcom / Carol Holly -- Speaking her own piece : Emma Goldman and the discursive skeins of autobiography / Blanche H. Gelfant -- The way we work / Jane Hallowell Coles and Robert Coles.
Form	Also issued online.
Summary	"This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject	American prose literature -- History and criticism.
	Autobiography.
	18.06 Anglo-American literature. (NL-LeOCL)077611985
	American prose literature. (OCoLC)fst00807422
	Autobiography. (OCoLC)fst00822597
	University of South Alabama (DE-588)5241550-8
	Autobiografie (DE-588)4003939-0
	Autobiografische Literatur (DE-588)4143683-0
	Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
	Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
	Romanschrijvers.
	Autobiografieën.
	Amerikaans.
	United States.
Indexed Term	Biography
	United States
Genre/Form	Aufsatzsammlung.
	Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History (form) (NL-LeOCL)088143147
	Autobiographies.
Added Author	Eakin, Paul John, editor.
Other Form:	Online version: American autobiography. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1991 (OCoLC)645878398
ISBN	029912780X (cloth)
	9780299127800 (cloth)
	0299127842 (paper)
	9780299127848 (paper)

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