Autobiography in early modern England / Adam Smyth.
Autobiography in early modern England / Adam Smyth.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Date
2010.
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N820.935/8
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English
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x, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; Note on references; Introduction; 1. Almanacs and annotators; 2. Financial accounting; 3. Commonplace book lives: 'a very applicative story'; 4. Entries and exits: finding life in parish registers; Conclusion.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
"How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of these later, dominant templates. The book explores how readers responded to, and improvise...
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Autobiography in early modern England / Adam Smyth.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N820.935/8
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74VM5qXxVwed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM5qXxVwed
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ISBN
0521761727 (hbk.)
9780521761727 (hbk.)
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820.935
MMS ID
991003574489702626
