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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453625503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-71801-7

9786611718015

0-19-155089-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SharpeKevin (Kevin M.)

ZwickerSteven N

Disciplina

942.050722

Soggetti

Renaissance - Biography - History and criticism

Electronic books.

England Biography History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introducing Lives; PART I. LIVES AND BORDERS; PART II. LITERATURES AND LIVES; PART III. PAINTING LIVES; PART IV. MATERIALS AND MONARCHS; PART V. SPIRITUAL SELVES; PART VI. TOWARDS BIOGRAPHY; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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