Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Early Modern Autobiography and Time: A life in time; Time, death and memorialization. Part 2 Reflections: Selves and Others: Looking outward: travelling selves; Framing a reflected self: language and the mirror. Part 3 The Self At War: Military Diaries and Journals: The expedition to Cadiz, 1625; Besieged cities: The Civil War. Part 4 Women And Life-Writing: A gendered genre: autobiographical writings by 3 early modern women; Women's wills; Bibliography; Index.