The Rise of the Memoir

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The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like Rousseau, Woolf, Orwell, Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston felt to write (and to publish) such works, when they might more easily have chosen to remain silent? Alex Zwerdling...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198755783

ISBN13:9780198755784

Release Date:February 2017

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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