“I was an atom in the world of life”: James Dawson Burn’s “The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy”
James Dawson Burn’s The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy (first published anonymously in 1855) relates the often-amusing life’s adventures of a man coping with various forms of social marginalization, as a vagrant, an illegitimate child, and an Irish immigrant in England. A story of personal reform and...
Main Author: | Ilaria Natali |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2020-06-01
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Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
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Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/11761 |
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