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Controlling time and shapin...
This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only
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monografia Rebiun25289459 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25289459 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 110907s2011 ne a ob 001 0 eng d 2011012442 743693682 747412160 960200313 961586730 962696820 988481981 991996368 994898400 1037757805 1038649498 1055334510 1058391203 1062902893 1066611307 1081288564 1086449238 1137132468 1161998591 9789004207585 electronic bk.) 9004207589 electronic bk.) 9789004195004 9004195009 1283161206 9781283161206 9786613161208 6613161209 10.1163/ej.9789004195004.i-541 doi UPCT u377927 N$T eng pn N$T E7B CDX COD UIU OCLCQ UIU OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCF OCLCO EBLCP UV0 OCLCO OCLCQ LOA OCLCO OCLCQ AGLDB MOR PIFBY ZCU OTZ MERUC OCLCQ COO OCLCQ U3W STF WRM OCLCQ VTS COCUF ICG VT2 AU@ OCLCQ WYU DKC OCLCQ HS0 LEAUB OCLCQ VLY BIO 007000 bisacsh Controlling time and shaping the self developments in autobiographical writing since the sixteenth century edited by Arianne Baggerman, Rudolf Dekker, Michael Mascuch Leiden Boston Brill 2011 Leiden Boston Leiden Boston Brill 1 online resource (xvii, 541 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xvii, 541 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Egodocuments and history series v. 3 Includes bibliographical references and index Controlling Time and Shaping the Self; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; PART ONE: HISTORICIZING THE SELF; Historicizing the Self, 1770-1830; Tracing Lives: The Spanish Inquisition and the Act of Autobiography; Autobiographical Memory in the Making: Wilhelmina of Prussia's Childhood Memoirs; Drastic History and the Production of Autobiography; Marc-Antoine Jullien: Controlling Time; The Diary and the Pocket Watch: Rethinking Time in Nineteenth-Century America; Writing and Measuring Time: Nineteenth-Century French Teenagers' Diaries Marking Time: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930sThe Second World War and Autobiography in Japan. Tales of War and the "Movement for One's Own History" (Jibunshi); Can There Be a Collective Egodocument? The Case of the Hashomer Hatzair Kehiliyatenu Collection in Palestine, 1922; PART TOW: AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SELF-PRESENTATION AND COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING; The Economy of Narrative Identity; Behind the Mask of Civility: Physiognomy and Unmasking in the Early Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic John Wesley, Superstar: Periodicity, Celebrity, and the Sensibility of Methodist Society in Wesley's Journal (1740-91)Self-made Men and the Civic: Time, Space and Narrative in Late Nineteenth-Century Autobiography; Life Writing, Marketing and the Construction of Cinema History: On the Ghostwritten Autobiography of Dutch Film Entrepreneur Abraham Tuschinski; "Reading The Body": Authors' Portraits and their Significance for the Nineteenth-Century Reading Public; Dutch Matrimonial Advertisements from 1825 until 1925: Changing Self-Portraits and Partner Profiles Autobiography and Contemporary History: The Dutch Reception of Autobiographies, 1850-1918The Politics of Nostalgia or the Janus-Face of Modern Society; PART THREE: CONTROLLING TIME AND SHAPING THE SELF; Lost Time: Temporal Discipline and Historical Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Egodocuments This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only English Autobiography- Authorship Biography as a literary form BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY- Literary. Autobiography- Authorship. Biography as a literary form. Electronic books Baggerman, Arianne Dekker, Rudolf Mascuch, Michael Print version Controlling time and shaping the self. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004195004 (DLC) 2011012442 (OCoLC)711642537 Egodocuments and history series v. 3