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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skura, Meredith Anne, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Autobiography : what is it? : issues and debates
  • Lyric autobiography : intentional or conventional fallacy? : the poetry of John Skelton (1460-1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503-42)
  • Identity in autobiography and Protestant identification with saints : John Bale and St. Paul in The vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553)
  • Autobiography : history or fiction? : William Baldwin writing history "under the shadow of dreames and visions" in A mirror for magistrates (1559)
  • Sharing secrets "entombed in your heart" : Thomas Whythorne's "good friend" and the story of his life (ca. 1569-76)
  • Adding an "author's life" : Thomas Tusser's revisions of A hundreth good points of husbandry (1557-73)
  • A garden of one's own : Isabella Whitney's revision of (Hugh) Plat's Floures of philosophie in her Sweet nosegay (1573)
  • Erasing an author's life : George Gascoigne's revision of One hundredth sundrie flowres (1573) in his Poesies (1575)
  • Autobiography in the third person : Robert Greene's fiction and his autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590-92)
  • Autobiographers : who were they? why did they write?