An English Vice
Bernard Bergonzi, 21 February 1985
The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse since 1800
by Jerome Hamilton Buckley.
Harvard, 191 pp., £12.75, April 1984,0 674 91330 2 Show More
by Jerome Hamilton Buckley.
Harvard, 191 pp., £12.75, April 1984,
The Art of Autobiography in 19th and 20th-Century England
by A.O.J. Cockshut.
Yale, 222 pp., £10.95, September 1984,0 300 03235 8 Show More
by A.O.J. Cockshut.
Yale, 222 pp., £10.95, September 1984,
“... without much discussion of the nature of autobiographical form. Jerome Hamilton Buckley and A.O.J. Cockshut take the discussion further, in complementary studies of developments since 1800. After a brief backward glance to St Augustine and 17th-century writers of spiritual self-examination like Bunyan and Sir Thomas Browne, Buckley focuses on the Romantic ... ”
