C:/ITOOLS/WMS/CUP-NEW/6839550/WORKINGFOLDER/SMYH/9781107078413PRE.3D i [1–14] 21.10.2015 6:00PM A HISTORY OF ENGLISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of auto- biographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of English autobiogra- phy. Organised thematically, these essays survey the multilayered writings of such diverse authors as Chaucer, Bunyan, Carlyle, Newman, Wilde and Woolf. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History is the definitive single-volume collection on English autobiography and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike. adam smyth is the A. C. Bradley-J. C. Maxwell Tutorial Fellow in English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford and University Lecturer in the History of the Book. He is the author of Autobiography in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010) and ‘Profit and Delight’: Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640–1682, and coeditor, with Gill Partington, of Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books.