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Thomas Shepard’s God’s Plot and the Topoi of Interiority

In Reading Autobiography, Sidonie and Smith say, “The spiritual autobiographer often retreats from a hostile external world and creates a verbal landscape as the site for expressing devotion to an otherworldly being or idea” (48). This spatial context is helpful … Continue reading

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Black-Out Conversion

In Smith and Watson’s Reading Autobiography, in their chapter about autobiographical acts, I see them frame autobiography by looking at the who, what, where, when, how and why of their creation. The who is the person to which the story … Continue reading

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