Writing Lives Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England
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Biographical note
Kevin Sharpe is professor and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. The author and editor of twelve books, he has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Stanford, the California Institute of Technology, The Australian National University and the Max Planck Institute for History in Goettingen. He has been a regular reviewer for the Sunday Times, Independent, Spectator and TLS and has broadcast on television and radio. He is noted as a scholar of early modern history who combines literary and historical studies. He is currently completing a three- volume study of Representations of Rule in England, 1500-1700 Steven N. Zwicker is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities at Washington University St. Louis. He is the author or editor of numerous works including The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden; Reading, Politics, and Society in Early Modern England; Refiguring Revolutions: Aesthetics and Politics from the English Revolution to the Romantic Revolution; The Cambridge Companion to English Literature: 1650-1740; and Lines of Authority: Politics and English Literary Culture, 1649-1689. Professor Zwicker has long worked to establish interdisciplinary teaching and research programs in the humanities and has collaborated extensively with historians of early modern England.Writing Lives contains sixteen excellend and thought-provoking essays dealing with the phenomenon of biography... There is much to interest the reader.
Bernard Richards, Oxford Magazine
an elegant and instructive contribution... thought-provoking
David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
This book is exceptional for its range of evidence, and for the balance struck by its editors and contributors between grand explanatory narratives of generic and experiential change and the fragmentary, episodic nature of early modern biography. Its influence will be broad and enduring.
Renaissance Quarterly
I highly recommend these exceptional essays to all readers and writers of biography or history
Journal of British Studies
the thoughtful contributions successfully highlight the need for a more thoroughgoing reappraisal of life-writing as a subject for further enquiry
History
Writing Lives is itself exemplary, both for the quality of its essays and for the editors' superb introduction
Huntington Library Quarterly
Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representations in Early Modern England is a provocative collection of fifteen essays, with an excellent introduction an otherwise fine and methodologically significant volume, which should be of great interest to all students of early-modern lives
Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700
Writing Lives is a fascinating book, refreshingly disparate in the approaches of its individual parts, but galvanised by the characteristic breadth of vision of its editors. It will undoubtedly be widely read by early modern scholars of almost every hue, and will have a long and enduring influence.
James Daybell, English Historical Review
it is likely that scholars interested in biography and early modern 'lives' will find much to appreciate within this volume
Jason Powell, Notes and Queries
Steven Zwicker and Kevin Sharpe have collaborated in editing several interdisciplinary collections. On the evidence from this one alone, it looks like quite a successful partnership. Writing Lives is designed to rethink biography from a number of different angles. The focus is not simply on biography, but rather on all aspects of the way in which 'lives' were written and read in the early modern period and could be understood in retrospect, as well as the ways in which we might conceive of 'lives' today and the particular problems inherent in writing and understanding such 'lives'.
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