num_pages: 160
description: This important book uses close readings of sixteen key French autobiographers to provide a major contribution to theoretical discussions of the genre. Sheringham traces the development of autobiography in French from Rousseau, exploring the differing devices with which autobiographers have dealt with enduring the difficulty of self-scrutiny, the self as textual construct, the relation to the reader, the problem of memory, and the influence of other texts and people.
language: English
title: French Autobiography: Devices and Desires: Rousseau to Perec
titlecomplete: French Autobiography: Devices and Desires: Rousseau to Perec
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Clarendon Press