Private Lives Made Public : The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England /

"By exploring the unprecedented boom in biographical writing in the late seventeenth century in England, Andrea Walkden demonstrates the wide-ranging influence of this new, visible, and affectively powerful form of public expression. She traces life-writing's relationship to emergent party...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Walkden, Andrea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions
Politics and government
Intellectual life
English literature > Early modern
Biography as a literary form
Biography
Biographers
Authors, English > Biography
Biographie (Genre litteraire) > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Biographes > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Biographies > Aspect politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Biographies > Aspect social > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Authors, English > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form > History > 17th century.
Biographers > England > History > 17th century.
Biography > Political aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Biography > Social aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Great Britain
England
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1603-1714.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 17e siecle.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siecle.
Angleterre > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.
England > Social conditions > 17th century.
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
England > Biography > History and criticism.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"By exploring the unprecedented boom in biographical writing in the late seventeenth century in England, Andrea Walkden demonstrates the wide-ranging influence of this new, visible, and affectively powerful form of public expression. She traces life-writing's relationship to emergent party politics, to the imaginative development of the early English novel, and to our contemporary use of biography in academic literary culture"--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (275 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780820706139

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