The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

ISBN-13: 9780199684076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 432 str.

Alan Stewart; Zachary Leader

Opis

Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.

Recenzje

On all counts, this is a useful, thoroughly researched, relevant, and interesting to read book for scholars and history enthusiasts alike.

O autorze

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and International Director for the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine), Philip Sidney, and James VI and I, and of Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). He is Assistant Director of the Oxford Francis Bacon, for which he edited volume 1, Bacon's early writings (2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.