Betraying Our Selves
Subtitle: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts (Early Modern Literature in History)
Contributors: Henk Dragstra (Editor); Sheila Ottway (Editor); Helen Wilcox (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 2, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780312231491
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Biography/Autobiography; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; General; Modern - 17th Century; Autobiography; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; Great Britain; History and criticism; Intellectual life; Self in literature
First sentence: Just as the title 'the Middle Ages' was invented by later generations to mark out a perceived distance from past consciousness, so critics have tended to accept that certain modes of expression and certain modes of thought could not have been present in literature before the development of 'modern' conceptions of the unique value of human personality.