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 |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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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?