Controlling time and shaping the self : developments in autobiographical writing since the sixteenth century /

Controlling time and shaping the self : developments in autobiographical writing since the sixteenth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 541 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Egodocuments and history series ; v. 3
Egodocuments and history series ; v. 3.
Subject:
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiography -- Authorship.
Biography as a literary form.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102439
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Other authors / contributors:Baggerman, Arianne.
Dekker, Rudolf.
Mascuch, Michael.
ISBN:9789004207585
9004207589
9789004195004
9004195009
1283161206
9781283161206
9786613161208
6613161209
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only.
Other form:Print version: Controlling time and shaping the self. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004195004
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004195004.i-541

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