Recording and reordering
Subtitle: essays on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century diary and journal
By: edited by Dan Doll and Jessica Munns.
Contributors: Doll, Dan, 1954-; Munns, Jessica, 1949-
Series: The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Bucknell Univ Pr
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Diaries -- Authorship -- History -- 17th century; Diaries -- Authorship -- History -- 18th century
Description: "The essays in this collection consider the diaries and journals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Diaries and journals took many forms - depending on the occupation, gender, social status, and religious commitment of the writer. They ranged in their forms from brief notes related to family business, and national events in preprinted almanacs or the pages of a family Bible, to examinations of spiritual and material states in books dedicated to that purpose."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sacred and secular places : an Atlantic divide / Glynis Ridley; title: Early modern women's diaries and closets : "chambers of choice, mercies and beloved retiremen" / Effie Botonaki; title: Women's diaries of late Stuart England / Avra Kouffman; title: Accounting for providence : contemporary descriptions of the restoration of Charles II / Jessica Munns; title: Arthur Young's travels in France : historicity and the use of literary forms / Terry Reilly; title: Trading routes and eighteenth-century migrations : reframing Janet Schaw / Eve Tavor Bannet; title: Bordering on fact in early eighteenth-century sea journals / James Kelly; title: "Nothing but dust & the most minute particles" : historians and the evidence of journals and diaries / Philip Woodfine; title: "Like trying to fit a sponge into a matchbox" : twentieth century editing of eighteenth century journals / Dan Doll.