Tudor autobiography
Subtitle: listening for inwardness
By: Meredith Anne Skura.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780226761879
Subjects: Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Self in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Biography as a literary form
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Autobiography: what is it? : issues and debates; title: Lyric autobiography: intentional or conventional fallacy? : the poetry of John Skelton (1460-1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503-42); title: Identity in autobiography and Protestant identification with saints : John Bale and St. Paul in The vocacyon of John Bale (1553); title: Autobiography: history or fiction? : William Baldwin writing history under the shadow of dream and vision, in A mirror for magistrates (1559); title: Sharing secrets "entombed in your heart" : Thomas Whythorne's "good friend" and the story of his life (ca. 1569-76); title: Adding an author's life : Thomas Tusser's revisions of A hundreth good points of husbandry (1557-73); title: A garden of one's own : Isabella Whitney's revision of Hugh Plat's Floures of philosophie in her Sweet nosegay (1573); title: Erasing an author's life : George Gascoigne's revision of One hundreth sundrie flowres (1573) in his Poesies (1575); title: Autobiography in the third person : Robert Greene's fiction and his autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590-92); title: Autobiographers : who were they? why did they write?