British autobiography in the seventeenth century / Paul Delany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delany, Paul., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Autobiography

Routledge Library Editions : Autobiography ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autobiography.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term 'autobiography' existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as 'Journal of the Life of Me, Confessions, etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings.The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings under tw

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Dedication; I Introduction; II The Renaissance and the Rise of Autobiography; Concepts of History; Renaissance Self-consciousness; Autobiography and Social Class; RELIGIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY; III The Origins of Religious Autobiography; Scriptural Origins; From Augustine to the Seventeenth Century; IV Catholic and Anglican Autobiographers; V Presbyterian Autobiographers; Autobiographers Born before 1600; Autobiographers Born after 1600; VI The Autobiographers of the Sects; Sectarian Autobiography to 1660

Sectarian Autobiography after 1660Quaker Autobiography; SECULAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY; VII Introduction to Secular Autobiography; VIII Secular Autobiography: the Objective Mode; Travel and Military Memoirs; Political Memoirs; IX Secular Autobiography: the Individualists; The Courtiers; Other Secular Autobiographers; X Female Autobiographers; XI Conclusion; The Origins and Environment of Autobiography; Some General Features of British Seventeenth-Century Autobiography; Bibliography, with a Check-list of British Seventeenth-Century autobiographies; Index

Notes:

First published in 1969.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

1-315-67345-2

1-317-37621-8

1-317-37620-X

9781315673455

OCLC:

918941175