| Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680 Contributor(s): Seelig, Sharon Cadman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521121647 ISBN-13: 9780521121644 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyzes the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatizing publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an original account of the development of autobiography with analysis of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell. |