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Early Modern English Lives (2007)

Early Modern English Lives (2007)

Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly

Year: 2007
Authors: Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly
Publishers: Routledge
Pages: 264
Print type: BOOK

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.