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Autobiography in Early Modern England
Adam Smyth
出版Cambridge University Press, 2010-08-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs)Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN05217617279780521761727
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u_Eak4kP2G8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of these later, dominant templates. The book explores how readers responded to, and improvised with, four forms - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - to create written records of their lives. Early modern autobiography took place across these varied forms, often through a lengthy process of transmission and revision of written documents. This book brings a dynamic, surprising culture of life-writing to light for the first time, and will be of interest to anyone studying autobiography or early modern literature.