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Article: Clinton Machann, The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Clinton Machann, The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (U of Michigan P, 1995), 191 pp., $37.50 cloth.
Scholars in the field of nineteenth-century autobiography can usually depend on two things in a new work that proffers an evaluative look at the study of Victorian autobiography. One, it will assume that the reader has a pre-existing knowledge and understanding of most of the significant critical works written in the field during the last two or three decades, and two, it will probably examine almost exclusively some variation of the following works: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, John Stuart Mill's Autobiography of John Stuart Mill, John Henry ...