Cover of Autobiologies

Book 2014

Autobiologies

Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Language
English
Published
2014
  • Biography as a literary form
  • Autobiography
  • History
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Authorship
  • Literature and science
  • Human evolution in literature

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."