Artisan Autobiography The Fli...

Artisan Autobiography

The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early new Europe. James S. Amelgang. Stanford: Stanford UP 1998 497 pp $6100

"James Amelgang's wide-ranging analysis of autobiographies written by the agency of artisans from numerous European countries will enrich the canon of early recent autobiographies. Amelgang defines the early late period very broadly and includes works written between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth hundred Although this book does discuss autobiographies according to such well-known writer-artisans as the printer Benjamin Franklin