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Tudor Autobiography
Meredith Anne Skura
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Description for Tudor Autobiography
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
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 Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say ... Read more
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 Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226761879
SKU
V9780226761879
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About Meredith Anne Skura
Meredith Anne Skura is the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University and the author of The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process and Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Tudor Autobiography
"Skura has read widely both in sixteenth-century literature and in critical and theoretical discussions of autobiography, and her survey of the field is excellent. But her book also expands that field, redefining the nature of autobiographical utterance." - Lois Potter, University of Delaware"