Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521856959)

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyzes the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatizing publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an original account of the development of autobiography with analysis of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell.

Author: Sharon Cadman Seelig
ISBN-10: 0521856957
ISBN-13: 9780521856959
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2006
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.46w x 0.80d