Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-283) and index.
Contents:
Autobiography : what is it? : issues and debates -- Lyric autobiography : intentional or conventional fallacy? : the poetry of John Skelton (1460-1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503-42) -- Identity in autobiography and Protestant identification with saints : John Bale and St. Paul in The vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553) -- Autobiography : history or fiction? : William Baldwin writing history "under the shadow of dreames and visions" in A mirror for magistrates (1559) -- Sharing secrets "entombed in your heart" : Thomas Whythorne's "good friend" and the story of his life (ca. 1569-76) -- Adding an "author's life" : Thomas Tusser's revisions of A hundreth good points of husbandry (1557-73) -- A garden of one's own : Isabella Whitney's revision of (Hugh) Plat's Floures of philosophie in her Sweet nosegay (1573) -- Erasing an author's life : George Gascoigne's revision of One hundredth sundrie flowres (1573) in his Poesies (1575) -- Autobiography in the third person : Robert Greene's fiction and his autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590-92) -- Autobiographers : who were they? why did they write?
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