The history of autobiography, from its origins to contemporary times, bears witness to the abiding influence of the structure and the rhetoric of conversion.
An edition of Character and Conversion in Autobiography
(2004)
Character and Conversion in Autobiography
Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre
by Patrick Riley
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"Beginning with Augustine's Confessions as the canonical model of religious conversion, the author investigates the changing forms of conversion in selected works by Montaigne and Descartes, culminating in reformulations by Rousseau and Sartre. Moving from a purely religious rebirth to works grounded in a personal philosophy or aesthetic vocation, the autobiographies considered in this book stand as episodes in a genealogy of conversion."--BOOK JACKET.
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Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre
November 2004, University of Virginia Press
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0813922925 9780813922928
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