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The Spectator as Paradigm, Grace Abounding as Initial Instance The Spectator as Paradigm, Grace Abounding as Initial Instance
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Proliferant Accounts, Mixed Modes Proliferant Accounts, Mixed Modes
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Selves Prismatic and Plural Selves Prismatic and Plural
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Epistolarity and/as Autobiography Epistolarity and/as Autobiography
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22 Finding Their Accounts: Autobiography, Novel, and the Move from Self ‘to you-ward’
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Published:October 2017
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This chapter examines the connections between personal record-keeping, autobiography, and the novel in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The wildly popular persona of Addison and Steele’s The Spectator attests to the period’s fascination with the double action of autobiography – its intense inwardly turn, and its multifarious outward thrust – which the emerging novel adapted. Samuel Pepys’ journal was constructed to a striking extent out of his own daily expense records, and private accounting deeply informed autobiographies and early novels such as those of Daniel Defoe, whose protagonists experiment with multiple forms in their relentless efforts to account for themselves. The otherworldly self-accountings of Margaret Cavendish and John Bunyan similarly trace an arc from assertive singularity to rhetorically calculated multiplicity, sprouting self upon self to encompass the reader. Epistolary fiction from Aphra Behn to Samuel Richardson, rather than being the opposite of autobiography, actually extends that genre’s tactics of absorptive multiplicity.
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