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Title
Autobiography in early modern England / Adam Smyth.
Created/published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description
x, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Smyth, Adam, 1972- author.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; Note on references; Introduction; 1. Almanacs and annotators; 2. Financial accounting; 3. Commonplace book lives: 'a very applicative story'; 4. Entries and exits: finding life in parish registers; Conclusion.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
Item Details
Call number
PR428.A8 S69 2010