Title: Being interior : autobiography and the contradictions of modernity in seventeenth-century France /
Authors: Paige, Nicholas D.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Autobiography; Authors, French Biography History and criticism; France Biography History and criticism.
Abstract: "Being Interior explores how seventeenth-century readers and writers busied themselves with the pressing task of inventing a text commensurate with these newly opened subjective depths. Their practices laid the groundwork not only for the future success of autobiography as a genre but also for our entire modern culture of interiority."