18 books like English biography before 1700

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Aspects de la biographie André Maurois · 1928 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging « Y a-t-il une biographie moderne ? Est-elle une forme littéraire différente de la biographie traditionnelle ? Les méthodes qu'elle a suivies sont-elles légitimes, ou au contraire faut-il y renoncer ? La biographie doit-elle être un art ou une science ? Peut-elle être, comme le roman, un moyen d'expression, une délivrance pour l'auteur comme pour le lecteur ? Voilà quelques-uns des problèmes que… Shares: Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, English literature, Biography & Memoir

Postcolonial theory and autobiography David Huddart · 2007 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography addresses the central challenge posed by its autobiographical… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Mediating Memory Bunty Avieson · 2017 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

The Poetical Works of John Dryden John Dryden · 1777 · ★ 5.0 · 524p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Oxford edition.The facsimiles are reproductions of title-pages of earlier editions. Shares: Early modern, History and criticism, English literature, Biography & Memoir

Selfless Ego Lucia M. S. Galli · 2021 Shares: Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Life Writing and Victorian Culture David Amigoni · 2006 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the relatively neglected diary, collective biography, and… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

British autobiography in the seventeenth century Paul Delany · 1969 · ★ 3.0 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Few works of a personal or self-revelatory nature were published before 1700. On the other hand, we see in seventeenth century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings, to which their authors gave such titles as Journal of the life of me, Confessions, etc. This present work is a study of nearly two hundred of those, published and unpublished."--Page 2 of cover. Shares: Early modern, History and criticism, English literature, Biography & Memoir

Poetics of Arabic Autobiography Ariel M. Sheetrit · 2020 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book examines the poetics of autobiographical masterpieces written in Arabic by Leila Abouzeid, Hanan al-Shaykh, Samuel Shimon, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Salim Barakat, Mohamed Choukri and Hanna Abu Hanna. These literary works articulate the life story of each author in ways that undermine the expectation that the "self"—the "auto" of autobiography—would be the dominant narrative focus. Although… Shares: Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing Julie A. Eckerle · 2013 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. Through close analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen, Eckerle shows how deeply influenced these women were by the controversial romance genre. Her analysis adds a layer of significant nuance to our understanding… Shares: Early modern, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Auto/Biography Across the Americas Ricia A. Chansky · 2016 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are constructed in this contested space. Such movement results in a cyclical quest to belong, and to… Shares: Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Pericles William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.5 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a seperate introduction to Pericles, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. Shares: Early modern, English literature

Drawing from life Jane Tolmie · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Meet Jerry Mathers, who, though resembling the middle-aged “Beaver,” bears no other relation, having been born in the 1970s when that illusion of American life was almost a decade dead. His mother, widowed by the Vietnam War, endured many years as a Woolworth’s clerk to bring Jerry up in a “nice neighborhood,” enabling him to go to college and fulfill his dreams of being an artist... at least… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Writing a woman's life Carolyn G. Heilbrun · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write… Shares: Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Life Writing after Empire Astrid Rasch · 2016 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A watershed moment of the twentieth century, the end of empire saw upheavals to global power structures and national identities. However, decolonisation profoundly affected individual subjectivities too. Life Writing After Empire examines how people around the globe have made sense of the post-imperial condition through the practice of life writing in its multifarious expressions, from… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Autobiographical Writing and Identity in EFL Education Shizhou Yang · 2013 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective. Through a number of case studies, the author delineates four phases that EFL writers may experience in their identity construction processes, illustrating the complexity of EFL writers’ social… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Curiosities of literature Isaac Disraeli · 1793 · 446p · ≈ 14h · Demanding In "Curiosities of Literature," Isaac Disraeli offers a captivating anthology that intricately weaves the realms of literature, history, and philosophy. The book comprises a series of essays exploring the eccentricities and lesser-known facets of literary figures, cultural traditions, and historical anecdotes. Disraeli's prose is characterized by its eloquent style and a careful attention to… Shares: History and criticism, English literature

Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida Jane Marie Todd · 2015 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation,… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by… Shares: Biography as a literary form, Biography & Memoir

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