Writing lives: biography and textuality, identity and representation in early modern England
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Lives and borders. Biography and modernity: some thoughts on origins / Stella Tillyard ; An irregular life: not a biography of Constantijn Huygens / Lisa Jardine -- Literatures and lives. Secrets and lies: the life of Edmund Spenser / Andrew Hadfield ; The early lives of John Milton / Thomas N. Corns ; Gossip and biography / Harold Love ; Considering the ancients: Dryden and the uses of biography / Steven N. Zwicker -- Painting lives. Naught but illusion: Buckingham's painted selves / Alastair Bellany ; Painting a life: the case of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland / Julia Marciari Alexander -- Materials and monarchs. Two queens, one inventory: the lives of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor / Paulina Kewes ; Elizabeth on Elizabeth: underexamined episodes in an overexamined life / Leah S. Marcus ; Whose life is it anyway?: writing early modern monarchs and the "Life" of James II / Kevin Sharpe -- Spiritual selves. This girl hath a spirit averse from Calvin: reading the life, hearing the voice(s) / Annabel Patterson ; Alchemy and monstrous love: Sir Robert Moray and the representation of early modern lives / Frances Harris ; Reading Clarke's Lives in political and polemical context / Peter Lake ; The servant and the grave robber: Walton's Lives in Restoration England / Andrea Walkden -- Towards biography. Biography, fiction, and the emergence of identity in eighteenth century Britain / Michael McKeon
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 369 p.)
ISBN:0191550892
9780191550898

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