Author: Joseph ListerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bradford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Autobiography of Joseph Lister
Author: Joseph ListerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bradford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Paul DelanyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131737620X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but 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 This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings. The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings under two main headings – ‘religious’, where the autobiographies are grouped according to the denomination of their writer, and ‘secular’, where a wide variety of writings is examined, including accounts of travel and of military and political life, as well as more personal accounts. Autobiographies by women are treated separately, and the author shows that they in general have a deeper revelation of sentiments and more subtle self-analyses than is found in comparable works by men. Sources and influences are recorded and also the essential historical details of each work. This book gives a critical analysis of the autobiographies as literary works and suggests relationships between them and the culture and society of their time. Review of the original publication: "...a contribution to cultural history which is of quite exceptional merit. Its subject is of great intrinsic interest and manifest importance and Professor Delany has treated it with exemplary thoroughness, lucidity, and intelligence." Lionel Trilling
Catalogue of the Books in the Reference Department
Author: Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by S. Austin Allibone
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A memoir of the life, writings, and mechanical inventions, of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. F.R.S., inventor of the power loom, etc. etc
Author: Mary StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright
Author: Mary StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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