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The paper suggests that in autobiographical writing issues of geography are no less important than those of history. It surveys several theoretical tools for the study of the geographical aspects of life-writing and tests them against John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
January 2003: Frédéric Regard is Director of English Studies at the École Normale Superieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, formerly “Fontenay/Saint-Cloud” recently relocated in Lyons. Born in Algeria. Educated at ENS Saint-Cloud; awarded the agregation in British Literature, wrote his thesis under the supervision of Helene Cixous. Author of books on William Golding, George Orwell, and Virginia Woolf and of an essay on the notion of feminine writing in English Literature. Published a History of British Literature with the Presses Universitaires de France. Current field of research: the production of national identity through life-writing (mainly auto/biography, and narratives of exploration).
The paper suggests that in autobiographical writing issues of geography are no less important than those of history. It surveys several theoretical tools for the study of the geographical aspects of life-writing and tests them against John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
