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Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography
In this ambitious study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographers published in the last two centuries, she discusses not only well-known autobiographies such as Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie but also many obscure ones such as a traveling book peddler, a minstrel, a hotel proprietress, an itinerant preach
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Hardcover
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278 pages
Published
January 1st 1999
by University Of Chicago Press
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An interesting approach for a sociologist -- assessing American identity through autobiography.
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