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Writing lives : biography and textuality, identity and representation in early modern England / [edited by] Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renaissance--Biography--History and criticism.
- Renaissance.
- England--Biography--History and criticism.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions. - ;Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography. But the methods and approaches of recent criticism which have contributed rich insights and asked new questions about the ways in which we interrog
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introducing Lives; PART I. LIVES AND BORDERS; PART II. LITERATURES AND LIVES; PART III. PAINTING LIVES; PART IV. MATERIALS AND MONARCHS; PART V. SPIRITUAL SELVES; PART VI. TOWARDS BIOGRAPHY; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-71801-7
- 9786611718015
- 0-19-155089-2
- OCLC:
- 437096476
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