Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
English
Date of Award
5-2019
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Shawna Lichtenwalner
Committee Members
Michael Cody, Mark Holland
Abstract
The memoir as a specific and unique literary genre has only recently been broached for in-depth critical study, with two major, book-length examinations of the genre appearing in the past decade. While the genre has been around in various formats with various conventions for as long as humans have written, only the memoir boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first-century called for a more sophisticated look at the genre. This thesis will use these recent observations on the memoir as a genre to shed new light on two classics of gothic literature: Charles Brockden Brown’s 1798 novel Wieland and its serialized prequel “Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist” and James Hogg’s 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Foster, Tucker, "Introspections into Rational Fanatics and Thoughtful Deceivers: Examining the Use of Memoirs in the Works of James Hogg and Charles Brockden Brown" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3587. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3587
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
Included in
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