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1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
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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? |
| Summary |
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, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies. But, according to Meredith Anne Sk |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index |
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English |
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Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- History and criticism
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Autobiography.
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Self in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography.
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Autobiographies as Topic
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Biographies as Topic
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autobiography (genre)
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biographies (literary works)
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biography (general genre)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Autobiography
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Biography as a literary form
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English prose literature -- Early modern
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Identity (Psychology) in literature
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Self in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007050132 |
| ISBN |
9780226761886 |
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0226761886 |
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1282537989 |
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9781282537989 |
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9786612537981 |
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6612537981 |
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