Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660

By Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, Philippa Kelly

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754652955
• ISBN13: 9780754652953
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"