TY - BOOK ID - 80817114 TI - Autobiography and gender in early modern literature : reading women's lives, 1600-1680 PY - 2006 SN - 9780511483967 9780521856959 9780521121644 051116128X 9780511161285 0511160186 9780511160189 0511160755 9780511160752 0511161468 9780511161469 0511483961 128043693X 9781280436932 0521856957 1107155894 9781107155893 0511312237 9780511312236 0521121647 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Autobiography KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Autobiography of women KW - Women's autobiography KW - Women authors. KW - Developmental psychology KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] KW - Hutchinson, Lucy KW - Clifford, Anne KW - Fanshawe, Ann KW - Halkett, Anne KW - Hoby, Margaret [Lady] KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Great Britain KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Identity KW - Writers KW - Book KW - Personal documents UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80817114 AB - Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sharon Seelig analyses the writings of six seventeenth-century women: diaries by Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford, more extended narratives by Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett, and the extraordinarily varied and self-dramatising publications of Margaret Cavendish. Combining an account of the development of autobiography with close and attentive reading of the texts, Seelig explores the relation between the writers' choices of genre and form and the stories they chose to tell. She demonstrates how, in the course of the seventeenth century, women writers progressed from quite simple forms based on factual accounts to much more imaginative and persuasive acts of self-presentation. This important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography. ER -