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Autobiography in Early Modern England

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How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of these later, dominant templates. The book explores how readers responded to, and improvised with, four forms the alma ...more
Hardcover , 222 pages
Published May 19th 2011 by Cambridge University Press (first published August 5th 2010)
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