Title: British autobiography in the seventeenth century.
Authors: Delany, Paul.
Date: 1969
Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul,
Physical description: ix, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC class: C
Abstract: "Few works of a personal or self-revelatory nature were published before 1700. On the other hand, we see in seventeenth century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as Journal of the life of me, Confessions, etc. This present work is a study of nearly two hundred of those, published and unpublished."--Page 2 of cover.
Contents: Introduction -- Renaissance and the rise of autobiography -- Origins of religious autobiography -- Catholic and Anglican autobiographers -- Presbyterian autobiographers -- Autobiographers of the sects -- Introduction to secular autobiography -- Secular autobiography: the objective mode -- Secular autobiography: the individualists -- Female autobiographers -- Conclusion.