The Rise of the Memoir

by Alex Zwerdling

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir. Its territory is private rather than public life, shame, guilt, and embarrassment, not the achievements celebrated in the public record. What accounts for the sharp need writers like Rousseau, Woolf, Orwell, Nabokov, Primo Levi, and Maxine Hong Kingston felt to write (and to publish) such works, when they might more easily have chosen to remain silent? Alex Zwerdling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198755783
• ISBN13: 9780198755784
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"