Research Catalog

Title

Tudor autobiography : listening for inwardness / Meredith Anne Skura.

Author

Skura, Meredith Anne, 1944-

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates nine sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories." "Borrowing methods from affective linguistics, narratology, and psychoanalysis, Meredith Anne Skura shows that a writer's thoughts and feelings can be traced in his or her language. Rejecting the search for "the early modern self" in life writing, Tudor Autobiography instead asks what authors said about themselves, who wrote about themselves, how, and why. The result is a glimpse into a range of lived and imagined experience that challenges assumptions about life and autobiography in the early modern period."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1500-1700
• Geschichte 1485-1603
• Authors, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography > History and criticism
• English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Autobiography
• Self in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Biography as a literary form
• autobiography (genre)
• biographies (literary works)
• English prose literature > Early modern
• Englisch
• Autobiografie
• Autobiografische Literatur
• Autobiografieën
• Engels
• Authors, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Biography > History
• Engelska självbiografiska romaner > historia > 1485-1603 (Tudortiden)
• Jaget i litteraturen
• Biografi som litterär genre
• Englisch

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• 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?

ISBN

• 9780226761879
• 0226761878

LCCN

• 2007050132
• 9780226761879

OCLC

• ocn183610222
• 183610222
• SCSB-14170297

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library