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Tudor autobiography :

(Number (ISBN

0226761886

(Number (ISBN

1282537989

(Number (ISBN

6612537981

(Number (ISBN

9780226761886

(Number (ISBN

9781282537989

(Number (ISBN

9786612537981

Erroneous ISBN

0226761878

Erroneous ISBN

9780226761879

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b793542

Title Proper

Tudor autobiography :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

listening for inwardness /

First Statement of Responsibility

Meredith Anne Skura.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) :

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illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-283) and index.

Text of Note

Autobiography : what is it? : issues and debates -- Lyric autobiography : intentional or conventional fallacy? : the poetry of John Skelton (1460-1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) -- Identity in autobiography and Protestant identification with saints : John Bale and St. Paul in The vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553) -- Autobiography : history or fiction? : William Baldwin writing history "under the shadow of dreames and visions" in A mirror for magistrates (1559) -- Sharing secrets "entombed in your heart" : Thomas Whythorne's "good friend" and the story of his life (ca. 1569-76) -- Adding an "author's life" : Thomas Tusser's revisions of A hundreth good points of husbandry (1557-73) -- A garden of one's own : Isabella Whitney's revision of (Hugh) Plat's Floures of philosophie in her Sweet nosegay (1573) -- Erasing an author's life : George Gascoigne's revision of One hundredth sundrie flowres (1573) in his Poesies (1575) -- Autobiography in the third person : Robert Greene's fiction and his autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590-92) -- Autobiographers : who were they? why did they write?

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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.

Title

Tudor autobiography.

International Standard Book Number

9780226761879

Authors, English-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- Biography-- History and criticism.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

English prose literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Self in literature.

Autobiography.

Biography as a literary form.

English prose literature-- Early modern.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Self in literature.

LIT-- 004120

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Book number

Skura, Meredith Anne,1944-

Date of Transaction

20201207064156.0

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[Book]

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