Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe

by Christopher H. Johnson

This volume historicizes the study of life-writing and egodocuments, focusing on early modern European reflections on the self, self-fashioning, and identity. Life-writing and the study of egodocuments currently tend to be viewed as separate fields, yet the individual as a purposive social actor provides significant common ground and offers a vehicle, both theoretical and practical, for a profitable synthesis of the two in a historical context. Echoing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030824829
• ISBN13: 9783030824822
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"