Format:
1 Online-Ressource (429 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780191506994
Series Statement:
Oxford history of life-writing
Content:
Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.
Content:
COVER -- THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LIFE-WRITING VOLUME 2 EARLY MODERN -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION -- Introduction -- Life-writing -- Writing Lives -- Life-Writing in Early Modern England -- Chapter 1: The Dangerous Lives of Sir Thomas More -- 'I, William Roper' -- A Battle for Inheritance -- The More Legacies -- Topcliffe and Harpsfield -- Chapter 2: The Reformed Lives of John Bale -- Bale's Conversions -- The Vocation of John Bale -- A Second St Paul -- Chapter 3: John Foxe's Lives of the Saints -- When Foxe Met Bale -- Foxe's Histories of the Church -- That Huge Dongehill of Your Stinking Martyrs: The Catholic Backlash -- Reading the Book of Martyrs -- Chapter 4: Thomas Whythorne's Life in Songs and Sonnets -- Devysed and Written with a New Orthografye -- 'Thomas Whythorne' -- A Book of Songs and Sonetts -- Thomas Whythorne, Gent. -- 'Miuzik in This Tyme Prezent' -- Chapter 5: The Memorials of William Lambe -- William Lambe, Philanthropist -- Epitaph and Memoriall -- The Limitations of Good Works -- The Fate of the Monuments -- Chapter 6: The Receipts and Payments of Richard Stonley -- Self Accounting: The Rise of the Diary -- The Diaries of Richard Stonley -- The Life of Richard Stonley -- Reading the Page -- Chapter 7: Richard Rogers's Course of Examination -- My State in My Christian Practice -- The Spread of the Spiritual Examination -- Chapter 8: The Christian Life and Godly Death of Katherine Brettergh -- The Funeral Sermon Controversy -- Katherine Brettergh in Print -- Grievances at the Hands of Papists -- The Author of Brettergh's Life -- Chapter 9: The Revised Lives of Tobie Matthew -- 1611: Conuersion to the Catholick Fayth -- 1629: A Visible Marke of Particular Honour -- 1640: A Funerall Aduise to the Reader.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199684076
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stewart, Alan, 1967 - The Oxford history of life-writing ; Volume 2: Early modern Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780199684076
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Geschichte 1500-1700
;
Autobiografische Literatur
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