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    612-822-4611

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Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography

Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography

Bjorklund, Diane

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226054489
ISBN13: 9780226054483
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 15 2000
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
In this ambitious study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographers published in the last two centuries, she discusses not only well-known autobiographies such as Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie but also many obscure ones such as a traveling book peddler, a minstrel, a hotel proprietress, an itinerant preacher, a West Point cadet, and a hoopskirt wire manufacturer. Bjorklund draws on the colorful stories of these autobiographers to show how their historical epoch shapes their understandings of self.

A refreshingly welcome approach to this intriguing topic. . . . [Bjorklund's] extensive and systematic approach to her source material is impressive and enriches our understanding of this essential subject.-Virginia Quarterly Review

Bjorklund studies both famous and obscure writers, and her clear prose style and copious quotations provide insight into the many aspects of the changing American self. -Library Journal

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