Tudor autobiography : listening for inwardness / / Meredith Anne Skura.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 301 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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?