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Unite/Divide/Unite: World, National, Transnational Literature
Helga Lenart-Cheng (Harvard University)
A Typical Individual? Autobiography, Statistics and EugenicsIt's central focus is H. G. Wells' 1934 autobiography. The paper looks at Wells' struggle to define the unique particular individual in the frame of a generalized, unified human experience. Wells' utopian, de-individualized autobiography is a most exciting text from the point of view of your discussion of "Uniting/Separating/Uniting".
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