Autobiography in early modern england
Auteur :
Smyth, Adam
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521761727
Date de publication :
5 août 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,0 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
520 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
By examining four different forms of writing - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - Adam Smyth explores the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of the later, dominant templates.