Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography

by Diane Bjorklund

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226054470
• ISBN13: 9780226054476
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"