Mapping the 'I' : : research on self-narratives in Germany and Switzerland / / edited by Claudia Ulbrich, Kaspar von Greyerz, Lorenz Heiligensetzer.
In Mapping the ‘I’ , Research on Self Narratives in Germany and Switzerland, the contributors, working with egodocuments (autobiographies, diaries, family chronicles and related texts), discuss various approaches to early modern concepts of the person and of personhood, the place of individuality wi...
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| Superior document: | Egodocuments and History Series ; Volume 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Egodocuments and history series ;
Volume 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Claudia Ulbrich , Kaspar von Greyerz and Lorenz Heiligensetzer
- Introduction / Claudia Ulbrich , Kaspar von Greyerz and Lorenz Heiligensetzer
- 1 From the Individual to the Person: Challenging Autobiography Theory / Gabriele Jancke and Claudia Ulbrich
- 2 Observations on the Historiographical Status of Research on Self-Writing / Kaspar von Greyerz
- 3 Swiss-German Self-Narratives: The Archival Project as a Rich Vein of Research / Lorenz Heiligensetzer
- 4 Private Body – What Do Self-Narratives Bring to the History of the Body? / Gudrun Piller
- 5 “I will Wake the Maidens, They shall Prepare Soup for You” – Food as a Code in the Autobiography of Thomas Platter / Angela Heimen
- 6 Autobiographical Texts: Acting within a Network: Observations on Genre and Power Relations in the German-Speaking Regions from 1400 to 1620 / Gabriele Jancke
- 7 Condemning Oneself to Death: The Semantics of Suicide in Self-Narratives of the German Enlightenment / Andreas Bähr
- 8 Pitfalls in Reading Popular Self-Narratives: Biographical Reconfigurations and Self-Censure in the Autobiography of a Pedlar, Small Farmer and Weaver from Eastern Switzerland, Gregorius Aemisegger (1815–1913) / Fabian Brändle
- 9 Family and House Books in Late Medieval German-Speaking Areas: A Research Overview / Claudia Ulbrich
- 10 Autobiography in Economic History / Thomas Max Safley
- 11 Family Politics, Family Networks and the “Familial Self”: Sibling Letters in Seventeenth Century German High Aristocracy / Sophie Ruppel
- 12 Scrabbling Mice, a Visit from Hades and Thoughts of Death: The Autobiography of Lucas Forcart-Respinger, a Merchant from Basel (1789–1869) / Patricia Zihlmann-Märki
- Index of Persons / Claudia Ulbrich , Kaspar von Greyerz and Lorenz Heiligensetzer
- Index of Places / Claudia Ulbrich , Kaspar von Greyerz and Lorenz Heiligensetzer.