Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M03 2 - 214 páginas
Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyzes the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatizing publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an original account of the development of autobiography with analysis of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell.

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mapping the territory
1
Margaret Hoby the stewardship of time
15
The construction of a life the diaries of Anne Clifford
34
Pygmalions image the lives of Lucy Hutchinson
73
Ann Fanshawe private historian
90
Romance and respectability the autobiography of Anne Halkett
110
Margaret Cavendish shy person to Blazing Empress
131
The Life of Me
154
Notes
160
Bibliography
195
Index
211
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