Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe /
This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor pro...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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Table of 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.