{"product_id":"reading-the-early-modern-english-diary-paperback","title":"Reading the Early Modern English Diary - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiriam Nandi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Early Modern Diary\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003ci\u003eReading the Early Modern Diary\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these questions and develops new theoretical frameworks for discussing interiority and affect in early modern autobiographical texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading the Early Modern Diary\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003ci\u003eReading the Early Modern Diary\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these questions and develops new theoretical frameworks for discussing interiority and affect in early modern autobiographical texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiriam 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 \u003ci\u003eM\/Other India\/s\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eGayatri Chakravorty Spivak\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and has co-edited \u003ci\u003eIdleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature, \u003c\/i\u003ewith Monika Fludernik (2014) and \u003ci\u003eMatteReality: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures in Material Culture Studies, \u003c\/i\u003ewith Ingrid Gessner and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk, (2019). Recent publications include work on cultural memory studies and early modern diaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 197\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783095517472,"sku":"9783030423292","price":194.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/08c45aaa93e182cd2956720bdc17c776.webp?v=1780580172","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/reading-the-early-modern-english-diary-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}