Autobiologies
Subtitle: Charles Darwin and the Natural History of the Self
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Bucknell University Press; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781611486001
Subjects: Biography as a literary form; Autobiography; Identity (psychology) in literature
Description: Through analysis of memoirs, diaries, letters, and natural histories by Victorian authors, this author explores how "evolutionary theories shaped nineteenth-century autobiographical practices and refashioned the human subject" and "how the lived experience of the individual theorist simultaneously impacted their biological formulations."