Betraying Our Selves e-bog
875,33 DKK
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This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "e;selves"e; are "e;betrayed"e; in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation ...
E-bog
875,33 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
30 april 2016
Genrer
Interdisciplinary studies
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781349628476
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "e;selves"e; are "e;betrayed"e; in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.