Author: Tanya M. Caldwell

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1684482267

Writing Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. Employing the methodology William Godwin outlined for novelists of taking material "from all sources, experience, report, and the records of human affairs," each contributor examines within the contexts of their time and historical traditions the anxieties and imperatives of the auto/biographer as she or he shapes material into a legacy.