Author: Finney, Brian
Title: The Inner I : British Literary Autobiography of the Twentieth Century
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1985. orig.boards. 22x14cm, 286 pp. Minor rubbing, slight top page-edge bump, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Factual Accounts of the Self: W.H. Davies 'The Autobiography of a Super Tramp'; George Orwell 'Down & Out in Paris & London'; Internal Verification: Frank Harris 'My Life & Loves'; Unintentional Revelation: Harris & George Moore's 'Hail and Farewell'; Fact & Fiction: Form: Conrad' s 'A Personal Record'; Characterization: Isherwood's 'Lions & Shadows'; The Comic Perspective: John Mortimer 'Clinging to the Wreckage'; J.R. Ackerley 'My Father & Myself'; V.S. Pritchett 'A Cab at the Door'; In Search of Identity: Childhood: Herbert Read: 'The Innocent Eye'; Laurie Lee 'Cider With Rosie'; Richard Church 'Over the Bridge'; Parents & Children: Sir Edmund Gosse 'Father & Son'; W.B. Yeats 'Reveries Over Childhood & Youth'; Osbert Sitwell 'Left Hand, Right Hand!'; Autobiography as Self-Analysis: Robert Graves 'Goodbye to All That'; Siegfried Sassoon ' The Complex Memoirs of George Sherston'; John Osborne 'A Better Class of Person'; Myths & Dreams in Autobiography: Forrst Reid: 'Apostate'; Edwin Muir: 'An Autobiography'; The Spiritual History of the Self: W.H. Hudson ' Far Away & Long Ago'; John Cowper Powys 'Autobiography'; The Double Perspective: The Self & History: H.G. Wells 'Experiment in Autobiography'; Arthur Koestler 'Arrow in the Blue', 'Invisible Writing'; Stephen Spender 'World Within World'; Storm Jameson 'Journey from the North'; A Personal Postscript.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, British Literature, Autobiography, Twentieth Century, , , , ,