The Conscience of the Autobiographer - Ethical and Religious Dimensions of Autobiography

This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.

List of contents

General Editor's Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Conscience and Truthfulness - Character and Characterization - Conscience in the Essays of Montaigne and Johnson - Franklin and the Critics of Individualism - Ressentiment, Public Virtues, and Malcolm X - Shame in the Autobiographies of Mary McCarthy - Conclusion - Notes - Index

About the author

JOHN D. BARBOUR is Associate Professor of Religion a St Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1982. He has published articles in The Journal of Religion, The Journal of Religious Ethics and The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Tragedy as a Critique of Virtue: The Novel and Ethical Reflection.

Product details

• Authors: J Barbour, J. Barbour
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1992
• EAN: 9780333554920
• ISBN: 978-0-333-55492-0
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 16 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 368 g
• Illustrations: IX, 199 p.
• Series: Studies in Literature and Religion; Studies in Literature and Reli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works