Overview
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 improvised with, four forms - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - to create written records of their lives. Early modern autobiography took place across these varied forms, often through a lengthy process of transmission and revision of written documents. This book brings a dynamic, surprising culture of life-writing to light for the first time, and will be of interest to anyone studying autobiography or early modern literature.
- | Author: Adam Smyth
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 234 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521761727
- | ISBN-13: 9780521761727
