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autobiography
Lt. Dr. B. Ajantha
Parthasarathi
Assistant Professor
of English,
Sri SRNM College,
Sattur.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• A kind of biography – the author tells the story of his/her
own life
• First used by Robert Southey – 1809
• W.H. Longfellow,
“Autobiography is a product of firsthand experience; biography of
secondhand knowledge.”
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Renaissance
• Classical and Medieval Literature – apology and confessional writing
• St. Augustine’s Confessions – 1st autobiography – 4th Century
• Popular after 16th Century
• Growing interest in the human being – exploration of character and
personality
• John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Seventeenth Century/ Jacobean/ Augustan Age
• Journals and diaries – Memoirs
• Memoirs – an account of the author’s personal experiences,
memories and feelings
• French Philosopher – Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions (1782-
89) – an influential model
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Eighteenth Century /
The Restoration Age
• Witnessed the rise of the novel
• Novels – thinly disguised autobiographical protagonists and narrators
• Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847)
• Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield (1850)
• George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860)
• Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) (poem)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• Nineteenth Century/ Romantic Age
• Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901)
• Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life (1903)
• Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
• Recent days – actor, sportsmen, politicians, social workers, doctors and
spiritual gurus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autobiographies
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Features
• Not a mere narration of events
• Presenting details in an artistic and engaging manner
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Challenges
• Not always easy to recapture all the details in one’s past –
impossible to recreate the impressions and emotions
• Recounting of episodes that involve other people
• Artistic nature
Thank
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Autobiography

  • 1. autobiography Lt. Dr. B. Ajantha Parthasarathi Assistant Professor of English, Sri SRNM College, Sattur.
  • 2. AUTOBIOGRAPHY • A kind of biography – the author tells the story of his/her own life • First used by Robert Southey – 1809 • W.H. Longfellow, “Autobiography is a product of firsthand experience; biography of secondhand knowledge.”
  • 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Renaissance • Classical and Medieval Literature – apology and confessional writing • St. Augustine’s Confessions – 1st autobiography – 4th Century • Popular after 16th Century • Growing interest in the human being – exploration of character and personality • John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)
  • 4. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Seventeenth Century/ Jacobean/ Augustan Age • Journals and diaries – Memoirs • Memoirs – an account of the author’s personal experiences, memories and feelings • French Philosopher – Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions (1782- 89) – an influential model
  • 5. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Eighteenth Century / The Restoration Age • Witnessed the rise of the novel • Novels – thinly disguised autobiographical protagonists and narrators • Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847) • Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield (1850) • George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) • Wordsworth’s The Prelude (1850) (poem)
  • 6. AUTOBIOGRAPHY • Nineteenth Century/ Romantic Age • Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901) • Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life (1903) • Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) • Recent days – actor, sportsmen, politicians, social workers, doctors and spiritual gurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autobiographies
  • 7. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Features • Not a mere narration of events • Presenting details in an artistic and engaging manner
  • 8. AUTOBIOGRAPHY Challenges • Not always easy to recapture all the details in one’s past – impossible to recreate the impressions and emotions • Recounting of episodes that involve other people • Artistic nature