Despite the large number of literary genres, poetry, fiction and drama are the three most often the subject of literary criticism. We find comparatively few studies of diaries (or notebooks), memoirs, letters, essays, and aphorisms, even though, for example, Pepys, Saint-Simon, La Rochefoucauld, Boswell, and Virginia Woolf (as diarist and letter writer) are often held […]

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