{"id":14,"date":"2017-09-27T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2017-09-27T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:03:25","slug":"autobiografiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/autobiografiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Autobiografiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/214\/files\/2017\/09\/Reynoldsphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/214\/files\/2017\/09\/Reynoldsphoto-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Reynolds, Fisherman\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/files\/2017\/09\/Reynoldsphoto-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/files\/2017\/09\/Reynoldsphoto.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Reynolds, Fisherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;Autobiografiction&#8217; may sound like a postmodern critical term, but was in fact coined in 1906, in an essay of that title by the British Edwardian writer Stephen Reynolds (1881\u20131919). Reynolds is best-known for his book &#8216;A Poor Man&#8217;s House&#8217; (1908) about the fishing community he lived in at Sidmouth.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the original published text of Reynold&#8217;s essay, and a transcript of it, by clicking on these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Reynolds, &#8216;<a title=\"\u2018Autobiografiction\u2019 \u2013 Scan\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/autobiografiction\/autobiografiction-scan\/\">Autobiografiction<\/a>&#8216;, &#8216;Speaker&#8217;, new series, 15, no. 366 (6 October 1906), 28, 30<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Transcription of Reynolds\u2019 Essay\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/autobiografiction\/transcription-of-reynolds-essay\/\">Transcription of Reynolds&#8217; Essay<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Autobiografiction&#8217; provides a key term for my study &#8216;Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature&#8217; (OUP, 2010).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/self-impression-9780199579761?cc=gb&amp;lang=en&amp;\"> Max Saunders, &#8216;Self Impression&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Autobiografiction&#8217; may sound like a postmodern critical term, but was in fact coined in 1906, in an essay of that title by the British Edwardian writer Stephen Reynolds (1881\u20131919). Reynolds is best-known for his book &#8216;A Poor Man&#8217;s House&#8217; (1908) about the fishing community he lived in at Sidmouth. You can access the original published&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/autobiografiction\/\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autobiografiction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}