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EBOOK Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191636417
EAN: 54BA63D1EB
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Stron: 336
Data wydania: 2012
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Autobiographical narrative is seldom viewed as a catalyst for the social and        political upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England and its colonies. Protestant        Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World argues that it should be.          Focusing on the inward search for signs of election as a powerful stimulus for new,        written forms of self-identification, this study directs critical attention toward        the collective processes through which 'truthful' texts ofspiritual experience were        constructed, validated, and endorsed. This new analysis of the rhetoric of authentic        selfhood emphasizes the ways in which personal accounts of religious awakening        became another opportunity to conceptualize experience as an authorizing principle.A        broad spectrum of Protestant life-writing is explored, from Augustine's Confessions,        first translated into English in 1620, through John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the        Chief of Sinners (1666) and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696). The forms        in which these landmark texts were circulated and the interests that those        circulations served are examined in such a way as to put canonical texts back into        conversation with the outpouring of individual lifewritings that dates from the        middle of the 17th century on. As the first new historicized account of the        seventeenth-century Protestant conversion narrative in a generation, Protestant        Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World contributes to the        reintegration of the scholarly fields of literature, religion, andpolitics. It        revitalizes the study of proto-literary forms which, while devotional in nature,        were deeply political in their consequences, contributing as they did to the        emerging discourse of personal liberties.

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