Spengemann situates the first surge of critical interest in the practice of life narrative in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, citing three phenomena that contributes to this emergence: the increasing number of life narratives reaching an interested public the increasing number of critical essays focused on such narrative and the influence of Wilhelm Dilthey, who defines autobiography as the highest and most instructive form of understanding life. This chapter explores the history of autobiography studies to the 1990s.
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