Life Writing

Culley, Amy (2021) Life Writing. In: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion. Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics . Cambridge University Press, pp. 217-233. ISBN 9781108609661

Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609661.013

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This essay addresses developments in religious life writing in the Romantic period through examination of auto/biographies, journals, and letters in both print and manuscript. Particular interests include the genre of the spiritual conversion narrative, literary uses of confession and conversion, life writing and religious historiography, and women’s auto/biographical practices and place within this tradition.

Keywords:British Romanticism, Life Writing, spiritual autobiography, journals, letters
Subjects:Q Linguistics, Classics and related subjects > Q323 English Literature by topic
Q Linguistics, Classics and related subjects > Q321 English Literature by period
Divisions:College of Arts > Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage > Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage (Humanities)
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Deposited On:26 Jul 2023 09:11

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