Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography

by Heidi L. Pennington

This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221572
• ISBN13: 9780826221575
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5