| Betraying Our Selves: Forms of Self-Representation in Early Modern English Texts 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349628492 ISBN-13: 9781349628490 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Science - Non-classifiable |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| Series: Early Modern Literature in History |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.68 lbs) 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |