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Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and
egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the
self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of
egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet
the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant
common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical,
for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context.
Echoing scholars from a wide-range of disciplines who recognize the
uncertainty of the nature of the self, these essays question the
notion of the autonomous self and the attendant idea of continuous
identity unfolding in a unified personality. Instead, they suggest
that the early modern self was variable and unstable, and can only
be grasped by exploring selves situated in specific historical and
social/cultural contexts and revealed through the wide range of
historical documents considered here. The three sections of the
volume consider: first, the theoretical contexts of understanding
egodocuments in early modern Europe; then, the practical ways
egodocuments from the period may be used for writing life-histories
today; and finally, a wider range of historical documents that
might be added to what are usually seen as egodocuments.
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