| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index. |
| Summary |
Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they represented themselves. Combining a fresh account of the development of autobiography with close reading, this important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: mapping the territory; chapter 1 Margaret Hoby: the stewardship of time; chapter 2 The construction of a life: the diaries of Anne Clifford; chapter 3 Pygmalion's image: the lives of Lucy Hutchinson; chapter 4 Ann Fanshawe: private historian; chapter 5 Romance and respectability: the autobiography of Anne Halkett; chapter 6 Margaret Cavendish: shy person to Blazing Empress; Conclusion: "The Life of Me"; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seelig, Sharon Cadman. Autobiography and gender in early modern literature. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 0521856957 (OCoLC)64723798 |
| ISBN |
051116128X (electronic book) |
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9780511161285 (electronic book) |
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0511160186 |
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9780511160189 |
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0511160755 |
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9780511160752 |
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0511161468 (electronic book) |
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9780511161469 (electronic book) |
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9780511483967 (ebook) |
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0511483961 (ebook) |
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128043693X |
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9781280436932 |
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0521856957 (Cloth) |
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9780521856959 (hardback) |
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