A community of one : masculine autobiography and autonomy in nineteenth-century Britain /

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Author / Creator:	Danahay, Martin A.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, c1993.
Description:	x, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series, the margins of literature
Subject:	English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English prose literature -- Men authors -- History and criticism. Men -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography. Men authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism. Masculinity in literature Autobiography -- Men authors. Autobiography -- Male authors. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Male authors. Male authors, English -- Biography. Masculinity in literature. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1501694

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ISBN:	0791415112 (alk. paper) 0791415120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Room of His Own: The Masculine Subject of British Autobiography
Autonomy and Community in Nineteenth-Century British Autobiography
From Community to Society: Ferdinand Tönnies and Victorian Subjectivity
Inner and Outer in Autobiography
Chapter 1. Autobiography and the Loss of Community: From Augustine's Confessions to Wordsworth's The Prelude
Chapter 2. The Liminal Subject of Romantic Autobiography
Chapter 3. Romantic Anti-Autobiography and Repression
Chapter 4. From Romantic to Victorian Autobiography
Ruskin, Tennyson, and the Loss of Nature
"A Profound Duplicity of Life": Repression and the Split Subject of Victorian Autobiography
Chapter 5. Subjected Autonomy in Victorian Autobiography: John Stuart Mill and Edmund Gosse
Chapter 6. "Dialogue of the Mind with Itself": Matthew Arnold and Monologism
Conclusion
Virginia Woolf and the Prison of Consciousness
Works Cited
Index

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