Historicizing life-writing and egodocuments in early modern Europe. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by James R. Farr, Guido Ruggiero.
• Editors: Farr, James Richard, 1950-; Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-
• Contents: 1. Introduction - James Farr and Guido Ruggiero .- 2. The Elusive Self: An Essay - John Jeffries Martin .- 3. The Life Enhancing Value of Life-Writing: On the Uses and Disadvantages of History in Vasari's Lives of Artists - Douglas Biow .- 4. Benvenuto Cellini Magnanimously Corrects the Irritating Ignorance of Life Writers in General and in Regard to My Vita - Guido Ruggiero .- 5. Conversions and Crossing Frontiers: The Lives of Two Spanish Monks - James Ameland .- 6. Everard Nithard's Memoria: The Jesuit Confessor's Quest for Re-fashioning the Self, People and Events - Silvia Z. Mitchell - 7. Egodocument History and the Diary of Constantijn Huygens, Jr. - Rudolf Dekker .- 8. Dimensions of the Self in Autobiographical Life-Writing: James Boswell's Journals and William Hickey's Memoirs - James R. Farr .- 9. Our Letters, Our Lives: Self-Performance as Life-Writing in Italian Renaissance Correspondence - Deanna Shemek .- 10. Writing About the 'Other' in One's Life: Life-Writing and Egodocuments of King Frederick William I of Prussia (1713-40), Frederick II of Prussia, and Wilhelmina of Bayreuth - Benjamin Marschke .- 11. A Dutch Notary and His Clients - Mary Lindemann .- 12. The Genres and Modes of Early Modern Women's Life-Writing: Anne Clifford and Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans - Mihoko Suzuki.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 808.06692; Autobiography -- European authors -- History and criticism; Self (Philosophy) -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Self (Philosophy) -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030824839
• Related ISBNs: 9783030824822
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