CFP Problematizing the self in eighteenth-century autobiographical writing in English

An international conference organized by the “Enlightenment and modernity” project of the LARCA (Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Cultures Anglophones) at the Université Paris Diderot, November 28-29, 2014. The considerable quantity of eighteenth-century autobiographical texts in English is now attracting increasing critical attention. Ranging from printed autobiographies by a great variety of writers (travellers, actors, printers, criminals, tricksters, slaves, and clergymen…) to diaries, j..