Betraying Our Selves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts

✍ Scribed by Henk Dragstra, Sheila Ottway PhD, Helen Wilcox (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and street ballads. The book's central concern is how "selves" are "betrayed" in texts, particularly in the centuries before the autobiography was a recognized genre. It suggests that self-representation in the early modern period was often indirect, emerging in oblique and surprising ways.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Prologue: the Poet as Subject: Literary Self-consciousness in Gower’s Confessio Amantis....Pages 14-30
The Construction of an Author: Pietro Aretino and the Elizabethans....Pages 31-44
The Vocacyon of Johan Bale: Protestant Rhetoric and the Self....Pages 45-58
Songs, Sonnets and Autobiography: Self-representation in Sixteenth-century Verse Miscellanies....Pages 59-75
‘So Much Worth’: Autobiographical Narratives in the Work of Lady Mary Wroth....Pages 76-93
‘Child of Time’: Bacon’s Uses of Self-representation....Pages 94-104
Her Own Life, Her Own Living? Text and Materiality in Seventeenth-century Englishwomen’s Autobiographical Writings....Pages 105-119
The Two Pilgrimages of the Laureate of Ashover, Leonard Wheatcroft....Pages 120-135
They Only Lived Twice: Public and Private Selfhood in the Autobiographies of Anne, Lady Halkett and Colonel Joseph Bampfield....Pages 136-147
[Re]constructing the Past: the Diametric Lives of Mary Rich....Pages 148-165
Last Farewell to the World: Semi-oral Autobiography in Seventeenth-century Broadside Ballads....Pages 166-182
Slightly Different Meanings: Insanity, Language and the Self in Early Modern Autobiographical Pamphlets....Pages 183-196
Epilogue: ‘Oppression Makes a Wise Man Mad’: the Suffering of the Self in Autobiographical Tradition....Pages 197-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-226

✦ Subjects

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