Private lives made public the invention of biography in early modern England
"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...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Duquesne University Press
[2016]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 206 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780271092973 9780820704821 |