Reference to classic models such as Plato's Apology, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, and Saint Augustine's Confessions should help us appreciate intellectual developments and problems in the motivation and methods of later writing in autobiographical form. Against this background the readings will include not only "real" autobiographies but also contributions of first-person narrative to philosophy as well as fiction in the "long" eighteenth century (1650-1850). Previous university study of English literature is usually expected.ĭescription: This course will approach the form of autobiography in the Enlightenment through a brief survey of the European tradition of autobiographical texts from antiquity to the Renaissance.
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