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Description for Betraying Our Selves
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Literature in History
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349628490
SKU
V9781349628490
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Ref
99-15
About Na Na
Henk Dragstra teaches English Literature, Sheila Ottway recently gained her PhD, and Helen Wilcox is Professor of English Literature, all at the Univerisity of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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