Resumen de Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century
Arianne Baggerman (coord.), Rudolf M. Dekker (coord.), Michael Mascuch (coord.)
The key question of the project is to what extent and in what ways the specific contents and forms of egodocuments as well as the increase in their number in the long nineteenth century were related to the emergence of a new sense of temporality, both on an individual level (projects 1 and 2), through the medium of pedagogical intervention (project 1), and in the public sphere (project 3).
The traditional wisdom concerning the links between autobiographical writing, growing introspection and individualization will be questioned. In my view, while writing to control temporal experience, the nineteenth-century autobiographers inadvertently reflected on themselves and shaped their own individuality.
