Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Altered egos.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American prose literature-- History and criticism.