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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Sharpe; Steven N Zwicker |
ISBN: | 9780199698233 0199698236 9780191803772 0191803774 |
OCLC Number: | 913831298 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
Contents: | Part 1. Lives and borders: Biography and modernity : some thoughts on origins / Stella Tillyard ; An irregular life : not a biography of Constantijn Huygens / Lisa Jardine -- Part 2. Literatures and lives: 'Secrets and lies' : the life of Edmund Spenser / Andrew Hadfield ; The early lives of John Milton / Thomas N. Corns ; Gossip and biography / Harold Love ; Considering the ancients : Dryden and the uses of biography / Steven N. Zwicker -- Part 3. Painting lives: Naught but illusion : Buckingham's painted selves / Alastair Bellany ; Painting a life : the case of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland / Julia Marciari Alexander -- Part 4. Materials and monarchs: Two queens, one inventory : the lives of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor / Paulina Kewes ; Elizabeth on Elizabeth : underexamined episodes in an overexamined life / Leah S. Marcus ; Whose life is it anyway? : writing early modern monarchs and the "Life" of James II / Kevin Sharpe -- Part 5. Spiritual selves: This girl hath a spirit averse from Calvin : reading the life, hearing the voice(s) / Annabel Patterson ; Alchemy and monstrous love : Sir Robert Moray and the representation of early modern lives / Frances Harris ; Reading Clarke's Lives in political and polemical context / Peter Lake ; The servant and the grave robber : Walton's Lives in Restoration England / Andrea Walkden -- Part 6. Towards biography: Biography, fiction, and the emergence of identity in eighteenth century Britain / Michael McKeon. |
Responsibility: | edited by Kevin Sharpe, Steven N. Zwicker. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Steven Zwicker and Kevin Sharpe have collaborated in editing several interdisciplinary collections. On the evidence from this one alone, it looks like quite a successful partnership. Writing Lives is designed to rethink biography from a number of different angles. The focus is not simply on biography, but rather on all aspects of the way in which 'lives' were written and read in the early modern period and could be understood in retrospect, as well as theways in which we might conceive of 'lives' today and the particular problems inherent in writing and understanding such 'lives'. * Notes and Queries * Writing Lives is a fascinating book, refreshingly disparate in the approaches of its individual parts, but galvanised by the characteristic breadth of vision of its editors. It will undoubtedly be widely read by early modern scholars of almost every hue, and will have a long and enduring influence. * James Daybell, English Historical Review * Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representations in Early Modern England is a provocative collection of fifteen essays, with an excellent introduction an otherwise fine and methodologically significant volume, which should be of great interest to all students of early-modern lives * Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 * Writing Lives is itself exemplary, both for the quality of its essays and for the editors' superb introduction * Huntington Library Quarterly * the thoughtful contributions successfully highlight the need for a more thoroughgoing reappraisal of life-writing as a subject for further enquiry * History * I highly recommend these exceptional essays to all readers and writers of biography or history * Journal of British Studies * This book is exceptional for its range of evidence, and for the balance struck by its editors and contributors between grand explanatory narratives of generic and experiential change and the fragmentary, episodic nature of early modern biography. Its influence will be broad and enduring. * Renaissance Quarterly * an elegant and instructive contribution... thought-provoking * David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement * this volume covers much new ground and exhibits a consistent attention to conceptual and methodological issues relating to the representation of lives... A very good team has been lined up * R. C. Richardson, Literature and History * Read more...

