Then: Essays in Reconstruction

by John N. Morris

Book Overview

CULTURAL WRITING. MEMOIR. THEN: ESSAYS IN RECONSTRUCTION is a memoir on which John N. Morris was working at the time of his death. Morris was a poet, essayist and scholar of eighteen-century English literature. "The memoir is perhaps the most naked literary expression of ourreluctance to keep to ourselves the self we so desperately seek toidentify. These two reconciling ambitions account for the urgency thatlies behind all autobiography. They lie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972096639
• ISBN13: 9780972096638
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Washington University in St Louis
• Length: 153 Pages