Betraying Our Selves: Forms of Self-representation in Early Modern English Text - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333740297 ISBN 13 : 9780333740293

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

A study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th-century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before autobiography was a recognised genre. It suggests that self representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways, and thereby leads us to look afresh at the era and its texts, as well as the definition of autobiography itself.

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À propos de l'auteur

HENK DRAGSTRA teaches English Literature at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests include the history of popular culture and in particular the early modern street ballad. He is the editor of the forthcoming essay collection, Beggars Description: Confronting Destitution in English-language Literature. SHEILA OTTWAY recently gained her PhD from the University of Groningen. HELEN WILCOX is Professor of English literature at the University of Groningen. Her publications include Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen (1989, with E.Graham, H.Hinds and E.Hobby) , and Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 (1996).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333740297
• ISBN 13: 9780333740293
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Dragstra Henk, Etc., Ottway Sheila, Wilcox Helen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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