Reading the Early Modern English Diary

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-42329-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

Reading the Early Modern Diary traces the historical genealogy, formal characteristics, and shifting cultural uses of the early modern English diary. It explores the possibilities and limitations the genre held for the self-expression of a writer at a time which considerably pre-dated the Romantic cult of the individual self. The book analyzes the connections between genre and self-articulation: How could the diary come to be associated with emotional self-expression given the tedium and repetitiveness of its early seventeenth-century ancestors? How did what were once mere lists of daily events evolve into narrative representations of inner emotions? What did it mean to write on a daily basis, when the proper use of time was a heavily contested issue? Reading the Early Modern Diary addresses these questions and develops new theoretical frameworks for discussing interiority and affect in early modern autobiographical texts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nandi, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Defining the Diary.- 3 The Diary as Cultural Practice.- 4 Creating Pious Identity: Margaret Hoby’s Reformist Diary.- 5 Anne Clifford’s “Activist” Diaries.- 6 “My Own Hearte out of Frame”: Emotions, Relations, and Religion in Ralph Josselin’s Diary.- 7 Enjoying the Diary: Samuel Pepys and the Transitions of Diary-Writing.- 8 Coda.

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam Nandi is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests include literary theory, early modern autobiographical writing, and postcolonial literature. She is the author of M/Other India/s (2007) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2009) and has co-edited Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature, with Monika Fludernik (2014) and MatteReality: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures in Material Culture Studies, with Ingrid Gessner and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk, (2019). Recent publications include work on cultural memory studies and early modern diaries.