Personal Disclosures: An Anthology of Self-writings from the Seventeenth CenturyAshgate, 2002 - 456 pages The seventeenth century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent anthologies of women's writing, drawing to some extent on this rich but relatively little-known archive, have demonstrated the importance of studying such material to gain insight into female lives in that era. Personal Disclosures is innovative in that it stimulates and facilitates comparative analysis of female and male representations of the self, and of gendered constructions of identity and experience, by presenting a broad range of extracts from both women's and men's autobiographical writings. The majority of the extracts have been freshly edited from original seventeenth-century manuscripts and books. Exploiting all kinds of text-diaries, journals, logs, testimonies, memoirs, letters, autobiographies-the anthology also encourages consideration of topics central to current scholarly interest: religious experience, the body, communities, the family, encounters with new lands and peoples, and the conceptualization and writing of the self. A General Introduction discusses early modern autobiographical writing, and there are substantial introductions to each of the six sections, together with detailed suggestions for further reading. |
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... rest there , but as a free passage unto the freedom of eternity . ... And now my soul return unto thy rest ; for the Lord hath been ever good unto thee , he hath ever preserved mine integrity and faithfulness unto this man in all my ...
... rest there , but as a free passage unto the freedom of eternity . ... And now my soul return unto thy rest ; for the Lord hath been ever good unto thee , he hath ever preserved mine integrity and faithfulness unto this man in all my ...
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... rest of our friends I commit you to the Lord , and rest your obedient wife Margaret Winthrop . ( v ) John Winthrop to Margaret Winthrop , 28 March 1630 , Winthrop Papers 2 : 224-6 To Margaret Winthrop the Elder at Groton . My faithful ...
... rest of our friends I commit you to the Lord , and rest your obedient wife Margaret Winthrop . ( v ) John Winthrop to Margaret Winthrop , 28 March 1630 , Winthrop Papers 2 : 224-6 To Margaret Winthrop the Elder at Groton . My faithful ...
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... rest of your religion is nothing nor ought you to have any hope or confidence of God's favour till you settle yourself to the performance of your duty in this kind according to St Paul's prescript in the fifth of the Ephesians , in ...
... rest of your religion is nothing nor ought you to have any hope or confidence of God's favour till you settle yourself to the performance of your duty in this kind according to St Paul's prescript in the fifth of the Ephesians , in ...
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