Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.
Explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing.
Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and International Director for the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine), Philip Sidney, and James VI and I, and of Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England (1997) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). He is Assistant Director of the Oxford Francis Bacon, for which he edited volume 1, Bacon's early writings (2012). He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
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Introduction 1: The dangerous lives of Sir Thomas More 2: The reformed lives of John Bale 3: John Foxe's lives of the saints 4: Thomas Whythorne's life in songs and sonnets 5: The memorials of William Lambe 6: The receipts and expenses of Richard Stonley 7: Richard Rogers's course of examination 8: The Christian life and godly death of Katherine Brettergh 9: The revised lives of Tobie Matthew 10: The familial lives of Martha Moulsworth and Constance Lucy 11: The collected lives of Samuel Clarke 12: Izaak Walton's lives and works 13: John Aubrey's minutes of lives 14: Samuel Pepys's life in shorthand 15: The dangerous lives of Thomas Dangerfield Notes Bibliography
Introduction 1: The dangerous lives of Sir Thomas More 2: The reformed lives of John Bale 3: John Foxe's lives of the saints 4: Thomas Whythorne's life in songs and sonnets 5: The memorials of William Lambe 6: The receipts and expenses of Richard Stonley 7: Richard Rogers's course of examination 8: The Christian life and godly death of Katherine Brettergh 9: The revised lives of Tobie Matthew 10: The familial lives of Martha Moulsworth and Constance Lucy 11: The collected lives of Samuel Clarke 12: Izaak Walton's lives and works 13: John Aubrey's minutes of lives 14: Samuel Pepys's life in shorthand 15: The dangerous lives of Thomas Dangerfield Notes Bibliography
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