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Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England

Title
Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
ISBN
9780820704821
0820704822
Publication
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
x, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2016
Series
Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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