Publieke levens: Autobiografieën op de Nederlandse boekenmarkt 1850-1918

Formore than twenty years now,Dutch historians have been working on the inventory of egodocuments. At present, these inventories cover the period 1500-1914 and contain thousands of texts, varying from autobiographies and memoirs to diaries, travel reports and other forms of life writing. Following the autobiographical practice over longer periods of time, the inventories show that during the nineteenth century a remarkable change occurs.Whereas premodern autobiographers rarely published their lives, in the course of the nineteenth century an increasing number of printed autobiographies were pu... Mehr ...