Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
Sharpe, KevinAuthor
Zwicker, Steven NContributor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Biography as a form has been largely unaffected by either new critical or historical perspectives. For early-modern scholars the biographical model, fashioned as a stable form in the 18th century, has been, in some respects, a distorting lens onto early-modern lives. In the Renaissance and early-modern period lives were written and represented in a bewildering array of textual sites and generic forms. This book reflects on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biography as a form has been largely unaffected by either new critical or historical perspectives. For early-modern scholars the biographical model, fashioned as a stable form in the 18th century, has been, in some respects, a distorting lens onto early-modern lives. In the Renaissance and early-modern period lives were written and represented in a bewildering array of textual sites and generic forms. This book reflects on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.
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Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Great Britain