Life Writing

Jeffrey W. Barbeau

doi:10.1017/9781108609661.013

Chapter 13 - Life Writing

from Part II - Literary Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2021

Jeffrey W. Barbeau

Amy Culley

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Jeffrey W. Barbeau: Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Illinois

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Summary

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.

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British Romanticism life writing spiritual autobiography journals letters

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion , pp. 217 - 234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108609661.013 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2021

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