Autobiography and gender in early modern literature : reading women's lives, 1600-1680
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Autobiography and gender in early modern literature : reading women's lives, 1600-1680
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c2006
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"First published 2006. This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"--P. [4] of cover
Includes bibliographical references (195-210) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyses the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatising publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an account of the development of autobiography with close and attentive reading of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell. She demonstrates how, in the course of the seventeenth century, women writers progressed from quite simple forms based on factual accounts to much more imaginative and persuasive acts of self-presentation. This important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography.
目次
- Introduction: mapping the territory
- 1. Margaret Hoby: the stewardship of time
- 2. The construction of a life: the diaries of Lady Anne Clifford
- 3. Pygmalion's image: the lives of Lucy Hutchinson
- 4. Ann Fanshawe, private historian
- 5. Romance and respectability: the autobiography of Anne Halkett
- 6. Margaret Cavendish: shy person to blazing empress
- Conclusion: 'the life of me'
- Bibliography.
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