Writing lives : biography and textuality, identity and representation in early modern England

Writing lives : biography and textuality, identity and representation in early modern England / [edited by] Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker.

In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case...

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Other Authors: Sharpe, Kevin (Kevin M.), Zwicker, Steven N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Renaissance > Biography > History and criticism.
HISTORY.
Biography
Biografieën.
England > Biography > History and criticism.
England
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions. - ;Biography appears to thrive as never before; and there clearly remains a broad readership for literary biography. But the methods and approaches of recent criticism which have contributed rich insights and asked new questions about the ways in which we interrog.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191550898
0191550892
1281718017
9781281718013
9786611718015
661171801X
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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