An English Vice
Bernard Bergonzi, 21 February 1985
The Turning Key: Autobiography and the Subjective Impulse since 1800
by Jerome HamiltonBuckley.
Harvard, 191 pp., £12.75, April 1984,0 674 91330 2 Show More
by Jerome HamiltonBuckley.
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,
“... or Continental writers but without much discussion of the nature of autobiographical form. Jerome HamiltonBuckley 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 ... ”