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Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World (Hardcover, New)
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Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World (Hardcover, New)
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Autobiographical narrative is seldom viewed as a catalyst for the
social and political upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England
and its colonies. Protestant Autobiography in the
Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World argues that it should be.
Focusing on the inward search for signs of election as a powerful
stimulus for new, written forms of self-identification, this study
directs critical attention toward the collective processes through
which 'truthful' texts of spiritual experience were constructed,
validated, and endorsed. This new analysis of the rhetoric of
authentic selfhood emphasizes the ways in which personal accounts
of religious awakening became another opportunity to conceptualize
experience as an authorizing principle. A broad spectrum of
Protestant life-writing is explored, from Augustine's Confessions,
first translated into English in 1620, through John Bunyan's Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) and Richard Baxter's
Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696). The forms in which these landmark
texts were circulated and the interests that those circulations
served are examined in such a way as to put canonical texts back
into conversation with the outpouring of individual life writings
that dates from the middle of the 17th century on. As the first new
historicized account of the seventeenth-century Protestant
conversion narrative in a generation, Protestant Autobiography in
the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World contributes to the
reintegration of the scholarly fields of literature, religion, and
politics. It revitalizes the study of proto-literary forms which,
while devotional in nature, were deeply political in their
consequences, contributing as they did to the emerging discourse of
personal liberties.
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