Tudor autobiography : listening for inwardness /
Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, an...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies. But, according to Meredith Anne Sk. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226761886 0226761886 1282537989 9781282537989 9786612537981 6612537981 |