Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-representation, 1500-1660
- ISBN-10
- 0754652955
- ISBN-13
- 9780754652953
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 241
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Authors
- Lloyd Davis, Ronald Bedford, Philippa Kelly
Description
Early Modern English Lives examines sixteenth- and seventeenth-century autobiographical practices in key contexts and modes of self-representation. Moving between diaries, letters, journals, memoirs, household and personal accounts, and major autobiographical texts, the study explores the social and historical conditions that shaped early modern life-writing. The authors argue that expressions of personal identity, along with the notion of privacy itself, involved an elaborate interplay of generic roles and cultural discourses.
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