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In this new critical study, Laura Marcus explores autobiography as a genre and as an organizing concept in nineteenth and twentieth century thought. Drawing on a wide range of writings, both literary and theoretical, she shows how autobiography and biography have been crucial in debates over subject and object, public and private, fact and fiction–debates now refigured in feminist theory. Autobiography has itself been perceived as an unstable and hybrid genre: it a… More >>

Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice

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