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
Table of Contents:
  • Controlling Time and Shaping the Self; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE: HISTORICIZING THE SELF; Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830; Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography; Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia's Childhood Memoirs; Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography; Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time; The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America; Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers' Diaries.
  • Marking Time: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930sThe Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the "Movement for One's Own History" (Jibunshi); Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922; PART TOW: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING; The Economy of Narrative Identity; Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic.
  • John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley's Journal (1740-91)Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography; Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski; "Reading The Body": Authors' Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public; Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles.
  • Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society; PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF; Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments.

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