Madness In Seventeenth Century Autobiography
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Madness In Seventeenth Century Autobiography
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Author : K. Hodgkin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-11-28
Madness In Seventeenth Century Autobiography written by K. Hodgkin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-28 with History categories.
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.
Women Madness And Sin In Early Modern England
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Author : Katharine Hodgkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Women Madness And Sin In Early Modern England written by Katharine Hodgkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course of her affliction and recovery and describes various delusions and confusions, concerned with (among other things) her family and her place within it; her relation to religion; and the status of the body, death and immortality. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also included are prefaces to the narrative written by Fitzherbert and others, and letters written shortly after her mental crisis, which develop her account of the episode. The edition will also give a modernized version of the original text. Katharine Hodgkin supplies a substantial introduction that places this autobiography in the context of current scholarship on early modern women, addressing the overarching issues in the field that this text touches upon. In an appendix to the volume, Hodgkin compares the two versions of the text, considering the grounds for the occasional exclusion or substitution of specific words or passages. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England adds an important new dimension to the field of early modern women studies.
Writing Illness And Identity In Seventeenth Century Britain
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Author : David Thorley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-24
Writing Illness And Identity In Seventeenth Century Britain written by David Thorley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a survey of personal illness as described in various forms of early modern manuscript life-writing. How did people in the seventeenth century rationalise and record illness? Observing that medical explanations for illness were fewer than may be imagined, the author explores the social and religious frameworks by which illness was more commonly recorded and understood. The story that emerges is of illness written into personal manuscripts in prescriptive rather than original terms. This study uncovers the ways in which illness, so described, contributed to the self-patterning these texts were set up to perform.
Every Man A Phoenix
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Author : Margaret Bottrall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
Every Man A Phoenix written by Margaret Bottrall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Authorship categories.
The Oxford History Of Life Writing
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Author : Alan Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Oxford History Of Life Writing written by Alan Stewart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.
The Oxford History Of Life Writing Volume 2 Early Modern
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Author : Alan Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-04
The Oxford History Of Life Writing Volume 2 Early Modern written by Alan Stewart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.
Palgrave Advances In Witchcraft Historiography
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Author : J. Barry
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-05-09
Palgrave Advances In Witchcraft Historiography written by J. Barry and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-09 with History categories.
This is the first book to offer a detailed modern survey of Witchcraft historiography. By using a broad chronological structure, from contemporary responses through to modern day, the book draws on contributions from a range of leading experts in the field to provide a much-needed overview of the area.
Forms Of Hypocrisy In Early Modern England
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Author : Lucia Nigri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Forms Of Hypocrisy In Early Modern England written by Lucia Nigri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles in England during the years after the Reformation and up to the Restoration. Bringing together current critical work on early modern subjectivity, performance, print history, and private and public identities and space, the collection provides readers with a way into the complexity of the term, by offering an overview of different forms of hypocrisy, including educational practice, social transaction, dramatic technique, distorted worship, female deceit, print controversy, and the performance of demonic possession. Together these approaches present an interdisciplinary examination of a term whose meanings have always been assumed, yet never fully outlined, despite the proliferation of publications on aspects of hypocrisy such as self-fashioning and disguise. Questions the chapters collectively pose include: how did hypocritical discourse conceal concerns relating to social status, gender roles, religious doctrine, and print culture? How was hypocrisy manifest materially? How did different literary genres engage with hypocrisy?
Music Myth And Story In Medieval And Early Modern Culture
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Author : Katherine Butler
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2019
Music Myth And Story In Medieval And Early Modern Culture written by Katherine Butler and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
The complex relationship between myths and music is here investigated.
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : A. Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-12
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century written by A. Ingram and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.