Read as Moore's first autobiography, Parnell and his Island delineates the subject self by electing not to represent it, initiating a repudiation of all inherited forms of life described within the text. In so doing, it points toward Moore's lifelong ambivalence between determinist and autogenic explanations for personal and public history.
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