The Modern Language Review, January 1st, 2001
Mark Rutherford's Autobiography and Deliverance are considered in the context of autobiographical fictions and fictional autobiographies. Starting from the epistemological and generic question as to how first readers of William Hale White/ Mark Rutherford's Autobiography and Deliverance could decide whether what they were reading was intended as autobiography or as fiction (however autobiographical), various possible factual and fictional earlier models for Rutherford are discussed (Cowper and W. D. Arnold as well as J. S. Mill and J. A. Froude). This is as a prelude to recontextualizing Ruth...
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