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Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walkden, Andrea, author.
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
- Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography as a literary form.
- History.
- Biographers.
- Biography.
- Social aspects.
- England--Biography--History and criticism.
- England.
- Biography--Social aspects--England--History--17th century.
- Biography--Political aspects--England--History--17th century.
- Biographers--England--History--17th century.
- Biography as a literary form--History--17th century.
- Authors, English--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, English.
- Authors, English--Biography.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- England--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Intellectual life.
- England--Social conditions--17th century.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "By exploring the unprecedented boom in biographical writing in the late seventeenth century in England, Andrea Walkden demonstrates the wide-ranging influence of this new, visible, and affectively powerful form of public expression. She traces life-writing's relationship to emergent party politics, to the imaginative development of the early English novel, and to our contemporary use of biography in academic literary culture"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. A Year in the Life: Milton and the "King's Book"
- 2. A Servant's Life: Izaak Walton and the Silent Public Sphere
- 3. The Life in Miniature: John Aubrey and the Art of Abbreviation
- 4. Parallel Lives: Crusoe, Clarendon, and Defoe's Cavalier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820704821
- 0820704822
- OCLC:
- 919104329
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