SOURCE: "Autobiography and America," in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. XLVII, No. Winter-Spring, 1971, pp. 252-77.
In the following essay, Cox describes the development of autobiographical writing in American literature—from Benjamin Franklin through Henry David Thoreau and Henry Adams to Gertrude Stein—as a reflection of American political life.
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