Hillman, Jennifer2018-11-022018-11-022020Jennifer Hillman. (2020). Introspection and the self in early modern spiritual (auto) biography. In M. Tamm & A. Arcangeli (Eds.), A cultural history of memory in the early modern age (1450-1700): Volume 3. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.9781474273848http://hdl.handle.net/10034/621512This chapter will explore the intersections between memory, introspection and selfhood in spiritual biographical and autobiographical texts produced in France over the long eighteenth century. This chapter uses case studies from eighteenth-century France to destabilise teleological narratives surrounding the emergence of selfhood and subjectivity in the eighteenth century and its association with modernity and secularisation.enmemoryautobiographybiographyEarly ModernBook chapter