16th century
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biography
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england
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george gascoigne
history
hugh plat
husbandry book
identity
inwardness
isabella whitney
john skelton
life writing
linguistics
literary form
literature
memoir
narratology
nonfiction
novels
poetry
psychoanalysis
psychology
revision
robert greene
saint
sermons
st paul
thomas wyatt
travel narrative
tudor
tusser
verse
vocation
whythorne
william baldwin
Product details
- ISBN 9780226761879
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2008
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Skura, writers reveal themselves not only by what they say but by how they say it. Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Skura shows that a writer's thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for 'the early modern self' in life writing, "Tudor Autobiography" instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a fascinating glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period.
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.
