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Title:
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
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By: |
Dr. Adam Smyth |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£94.00 |
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£82.25 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521761727 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521761727 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
5 August, 2010 |
Pages: |
234 |
Description: |
Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
Synopsis: |
How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of these later, dominant templates. The book explores how readers responded to, and improvised with, four forms - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - to create written records of their lives. Early modern autobiography took place across these varied forms, often through a lengthy process of transmission and revision of written documents. This book brings a dynamic, surprising culture of life-writing to light, and will be of interest to anyone studying autobiography or early modern literature. |
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7 b/w illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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