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Early modern

Alan Stewart

(The Oxford history of life-writing / general editor, Zachary Leader, v. 2)

Oxford University Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-394) and index

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内容説明

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.

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Introduction 1: The dangerous lives of Sir Thomas More 2: The reformed lives of John Bale 3: John Foxe's lives of the saints 4: Thomas Whythorne's life in songs and sonnets 5: The memorials of William Lambe 6: The receipts and expenses of Richard Stonley 7: Richard Rogers's course of examination 8: The Christian life and godly death of Katherine Brettergh 9: The revised lives of Tobie Matthew 10: The familial lives of Martha Moulsworth and Constance Lucy 11: The collected lives of Samuel Clarke 12: Izaak Walton's lives and works 13: John Aubrey's minutes of lives 14: Samuel Pepys's life in shorthand 15: The dangerous lives of Thomas Dangerfield Notes Bibliography

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