Autobiography in Early Modern England Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 05 August 2010

Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Why, and in what ways, did late medieval and early modern English people write about themselves, and what was their understanding of how "selves" were made and discussed? This collection

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 05 December 2016

How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 15 May 2017

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 04 October 2018

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 April 2016

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2005

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 17 February 2005

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 1994

This book is an investigation of youth and adolescence in pre-industrial England. It concentrates on young people from the middle or lower groups of society, who, between 1500 and 1800, left home

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 June 2013

This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early