Politics and Autobiography: Political Memoir as Polygenre

Abstract

The paper reviews the historical development of political memoir as a distinct if polymorphous genre of popular autobiographical, political, and historical literature. The focus is on its form and functions in the period since the 18th century, at which time political memoir differentiated from historiography proper.

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