British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century

Taylor & Francis

British Autobiography in the Seventeenth CenturyAuthor(s): Paul Delany\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138942004, 978-1138942004\nSynopsis\nOriginally 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 This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these, published and unpublished, which together represent a very varied group of writings.\n\nThe book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the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 ag