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Author | : Alan Stewart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191506990 |
Download The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.
Author | : Alan Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
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Download The Oxford History of Life-writing: The Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.
Author | : Alan Stewart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199684073 |
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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.
Author | : James R. Farr |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2022-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030824837 |
Download Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical, for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context. Echoing scholars from a wide-range of disciplines who recognize the uncertainty of the nature of the self, these essays question the notion of the autonomous self and the attendant idea of continuous identity unfolding in a unified personality. Instead, they suggest that the early modern self was variable and unstable, and can only be grasped by exploring selves situated in specific historical and social/cultural contexts and revealed through the wide range of historical documents considered here. The three sections of the volume consider: first, the theoretical contexts of understanding egodocuments in early modern Europe; then, the practical ways egodocuments from the period may be used for writing life-histories today; and finally, a wider range of historical documents that might be added to what are usually seen as egodocuments.
Author | : Abigail Shinn |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319965778 |
Download Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.
Author | : Aske Laursen Brock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2021-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000463559 |
Download Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange
Author | : Karen Anne Winstead |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Autobiografische Literatur |
ISBN | : 0198707037 |
Download The Oxford History of Life-writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Oxford History of Life-Writing consolidates recent academic research and debate to provide a multi-volume history of life-writing. Each volume provides a selective survey of the range of life-writing in a given period with particular focus on the most important or influential authors and works within the genre. VOLUME 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople. VOLUME 2: Early modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.
Author | : Eva Johanna Holmberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2024-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009190504 |
Download Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the 'fashioned' and portrayed selves and 'inner worlds' of travellers – personal memory, autobiographical practices, and lived yet often heavily mediated travel experiences – it opens up perspectives to travel writing in its many modes, that extend both before and after 'lived' travels into their many pre- and afterlives in textual form. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Ingo Berensmeyer |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 2019-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110444887 |
Download Handbook of English Renaissance Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handbook of English Renaissance literature serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers exemplary close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. Its systematic chapters address questions about editing Renaissance texts, the role of translation, theatre and drama, life-writing, science, travel and migration, and women as writers, readers and patrons. The book will be of particular interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.
Author | : Douglas S. Pfeiffer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198714165 |
Download Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores authorial character as an instrument of textual analysis in the scholarship of early Renaissance literature.