| Description |
xii, 301 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-283) and index. |
| Contents |
Autobiography : what is it? : issues and debates -- Lyric autobiography : intentional or conventional fallacy? : the poetry of John Skelton (1460-1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) -- Identity in autobiography and Protestant identification with saints : John Bale and St. Paul in The vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553) -- Autobiography : history or fiction? : William Baldwin writing history "under the shadow of dreames and visions" in A mirror for magistrates (1559) -- Sharing secrets "entombed in your heart" : Thomas Whythorne's "good friend" and the story of his life (ca. 1569-76) -- Adding an "author's life" : Thomas Tusser's revisions of A hundreth good points of husbandry (1557-73) -- A garden of one's own : Isabella Whitney's revision of (Hugh) Plat's Floures of philosophie in her Sweet nosegay (1573) -- Erasing an author's life : George Gascoigne's revision of One hundredth sundrie flowres (1573) in his Poesies (1575) -- Autobiography in the third person : Robert Greene's fiction and his autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590-92) -- Autobiographers : who were they? why did they write? |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography.
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Self in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Biography as a literary form.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780226761879 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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0226761878 (hdbk. : alk. paper) |
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