Editing the self: David Hume's narrative theory (1).

From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Valenza, Robin | Copyright information

ACROSS the many genres in which he wrote--epistolary, philosophical, historical, essayistic--David Hume both theorized and experimented with narrative modes of representation. Hume's infrequently discussed autobiographies are particularly significant case studies for examining how his narrative theory and practice are inseparable. (2) In his life writings he lays bare what is only intuitively present in his philosophical works--that autobiography is possible or plausible as a genre...

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