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Early Modern English Lives - Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed)
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Early Modern English Lives - Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 (Hardcover, Facsimile Ed)
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How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how
do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of
Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation
1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle,
and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms.
Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals,
travel journals, accounts of warfare, incidental meditations on the
nature of time, death and self-reflection, as well as life stories
themselves: these are just some of the texts that allow us to
address the social and historical conditions that influenced early
modern self-writing. The texts explored in Early Modern English
Lives do not automatically speak to our familiar patterns of
introspection and self-inquiry. Often formal, highly metaphorical
and emotionally restrained, they are very different in both tone
and purpose from the autobiographies that crowd bookshelves today.
Does the lack of emotional description suggest that complex
emotions themselves, in all the depth and variety that we now
understand (and expect of) them, are a relatively modern
phenomenon? This is one of the questions addressed by Early Modern
English Lives. The authors bring to our attention the kinds of
rhetorical and generic features of early modern self-representation
that can help us to appreciate people living four hundred years ago
as the complicated, composite figures they were: people whose
expression of identity involved an elaborate interplay of roles and
discourses, and for whom the notion of privacy itself was a wholly
different phenomenon.
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