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Article: Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation, 1500-1660.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis, and Philippa Kelly. Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660.
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. 241pp. index. illus. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-5295-3.
Early Modern English Lives offers a broad survey of a number of autobiographical texts, authors, trends, and genres spanning the late-sixteenth through the early eighteenth century. Bedford, Davis, and Kelly's collection of largely independent essays focuses on topics as disparate as time, mirrors, travel, sieges, spiritual self-examinations, and wills. Four sections (on autobiography and time, mirroring, war, and women's ...