Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
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G 2016/4910
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Language
English
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x, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
1. A Year in the Life: Milton and the "King's Book" -- 2. A Servant's Life: Izaak Walton and the Silent Public Sphere -- 3. The Life in Miniature: John Aubrey and the Art of Abbreviation -- 4. Parallel Lives: Crusoe, Clarendon, and Defoe's Cavalier.
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Publisher
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Duquesne University Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2016]
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"By exploring the unprecedented boom in biographical writing in the late seventeenth century in England, Andrea Walkden demonstrates the wide-ranging influence of this new, visible, and affectively powerful form of public expression. She traces life-writing's relationship to emergent party politics, to the imaginative development of the early Engli...
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Private lives made public : the invention of biography in early modern England / Andrea Walkden.
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Medieval & Renaissance literary studies
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/4910
Record Identifier
74VKVvQ7Oedl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVvQ7Oedl
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ISBN
0820704822 hardcover alkaline paper
9780820704821 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
920.042
MMS ID
991024039014802626
