Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500–1660How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals, travel journals, accounts of warfare, incidental meditations on the nature of time, death and self-reflection, as well as life stories themselves: these are just some of the texts that allow us to address the social and historical conditions that influenced early modern self-writing. The texts explored in Early Modern English Lives do not automatically speak to our familiar patterns of introspection and self-inquiry. Often formal, highly metaphorical and emotionally restrained, they are very different in both tone and purpose from the autobiographies that crowd bookshelves today. Does the lack of emotional description suggest that complex emotions themselves, in all the depth and variety that we now understand (and expect of) them, are a relatively modern phenomenon? This is one of the questions addressed by Early Modern English Lives. The authors bring to our attention the kinds of rhetorical and generic features of early modern self-representation that can help us to appreciate people living four hundred years ago as the complicated, composite figures they were: people whose expression of identity involved an elaborate interplay of roles and discourses, and for whom the notion of privacy itself was a wholly different phenomenon. |
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... writing from the publishers . Notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks , and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe . Ronald Bedford , Estate of Lloyd Davis and ...
... writing from the publishers . Notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks , and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe . Ronald Bedford , Estate of Lloyd Davis and ...
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... , 1625 6 Besieged Cities: The Civil War Part 4 Women and Life-Writing 7 A Gendered Genre: Autobiographical Writings by Three Early Modern Women 8 Women's Wills Bibliography Index List of Figures 2.1 2.2 4.1 6.1 7.1 Rowland Lockey,
... , 1625 6 Besieged Cities: The Civil War Part 4 Women and Life-Writing 7 A Gendered Genre: Autobiographical Writings by Three Early Modern Women 8 Women's Wills Bibliography Index List of Figures 2.1 2.2 4.1 6.1 7.1 Rowland Lockey,
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... writing of this project possible. We also gratefully record the assistance of our institutions and the staff of their libraries – the University of New England, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales – in ...
... writing of this project possible. We also gratefully record the assistance of our institutions and the staff of their libraries – the University of New England, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales – in ...
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... is experienced and represented among its first writers and readers.33 Such criticism encourages the conception that autobiographical works constantly engage with the shifting and developing roles and identities played by their.
... is experienced and represented among its first writers and readers.33 Such criticism encourages the conception that autobiographical works constantly engage with the shifting and developing roles and identities played by their.
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... writers and artists of the time were commonly concerned not with individuation , but with reflections of social themes.37 - 36 While our study here does not claim an overarching method that embraces multiplicity while avoiding the ...
... writers and artists of the time were commonly concerned not with individuation , but with reflections of social themes.37 - 36 While our study here does not claim an overarching method that embraces multiplicity while avoiding the ...
Contents
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Time Death and Memorialization | |
Travelling Selves | |
Language and the Mirror | |
The Expedition to Cadiz 1625 | |
The Civil | |
Autobiographical Writings by Three Early Modern Women | |
Womens Wills | |
Bibliography | |
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