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Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

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The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives tha… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-150699-4
  • EAN: 9780191506994
  • Produktnummer: 29379590
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 113'174 KB
  • Abbildungen: 23 Illustrations

Über den Autor


Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and International Director for the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine), Philip Sidney, and James VI and I, and of Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). He is Assistant Director of the Oxford Francis Bacon, for which heedited volume 1, Bacon's early writings (2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.

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