Tudor autobiography : listening for inwardness /
Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, an...
| Основен автор: | Skura, Meredith Anne, 1944- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312212 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Tudor autobiography. |
| Резюме: |
Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. In the past such texts have not been called autobiographies because they do not reveal much of the inwardness of their subject, a requisite of most modern autobiographies. But, according to Meredith Anne Sk. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226761886 0226761886 |